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Peter Schlemihl's wundersame Geschichte mitgetheilt von Adelbert von Chamisso.

Accession number
PML 86820
Creator
Chamisso, Adelbert von, 1781-1838.
Published
Nürnberg, Bei Johann Leonhard Schrag. 1835.
Credit line
Gift; Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
"Druck der Campeschen Officin." -- verso of tp.
With a frontispiece by Franz Leopold, six engravings by Leopold after George Cruikshank, and two engravings by P.C. Geissler. These two engravings (the last two in the book), and the pictorial borders in various colors, also by Geissler, appear in this edition for the first time.
The illustrations, printed in black, are surrounded by illustrated borders printed in blues, browns, or greens.
Description
142 p. : frontispiece, engravings ; 17 cm.
Provenance
M.P.M. (inscription dated 1837); (unidentified inscription, dated 1899); from the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Green moire cloth.
Classification
Department