//, Literature, Books/Adelbert von Chamisso. Peter Schlemihl’s wundersame Geschichte / mitgetheilt von J. E. Hitzig. — Nürnberg: J. L. Schrag, [1839].

Adelbert von Chamisso. Peter Schlemihl’s wundersame Geschichte / mitgetheilt von J. E. Hitzig. — Nürnberg: J. L. Schrag, [1839].

Title page (in Gothic script): Peter Schlemihl’s | wundersame Geschichte | mitgetheilt | von | Adelbert von Chamisso. | {vignette} | Nach des Dichters Tode neu herausgegeben | von Julius Eduard Hitzig. | Stereotypausgabe mit Holzschnitten. | Nürnberg, | Johann Leonhard Schrag. ||

Pagination: [i-iii] iv-xvi, [1] 2-82 [2], 15 woodcut vignettes by Unzelmann after Menzel.

Collation: 8vo; π8 1-58 62.

Binding: 21.5 x 13.5 cm, blind olive wrappers.

Year of publication inferred from the foreword. This is the first posthumous edition of Chamisso’s novel.

Personae:

Chamisso, Adelbert von (German, 1781 – 1838). — Author of the text.

Hitzig, Julius Eduard [Itzig, Isaac Elias] (German-Jewish, 1780 – 1849). — Author of the foreword.

Menzel, Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von (German, 1815 – 1905). — Artist of the vignettes.

Unzelmann, Friedrich Ludwig (German, 1797 – 1854). — Engraver of the woodcuts.

Schrag, Johann Leonhard (Germany, 1783 – 1858). — Publisher.

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