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Jean Paul. Titan. 4 volumes. With 4 engraved titles. Berlin, Matzdorff , 1800-1803. bound in volume 2: Derselbe. Comic appendix to Titan. 2 vols. Ebda, 1800-1801. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Half leather bindings (circa 1840) with gilt-stamped spine title, gilt spine and gilt-stamped cover fillets (slightly rubbed, corners restored). First editions, first printing. - Berend 13a and 14 - Goedeke V, 464, 14 - The preface to the Comic Appendix (VIII p.) is bound after the title of the first "volume"; it actually appeared with the second and belongs here, according to the code, before p.37 - "... der Titan (stellt) den Höhepunkt von Jean Pauls Schaffen darstellt. Hermann A. Korff's characterization ... as 'the greatest effort of the second generation' has given the literary significance ... after a long period of misjudgment ... also for the Goethe school, and W. Harich's judgment, which calls Titan 'the greatest novel in the German language', has finally given the work recognition even in the completely different ideological camp, which had long been hostile to it." (KNLL VIII, 686). - Some foxing, bookplate on the inside covers. Good copy, decoratively bound. VAT: *
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Jean Paul. Titan. 4 volumes. With 4 engraved titles. Berlin, Matzdorff , 1800-1803. bound in volume 2: Derselbe. Comic appendix to Titan. 2 vols. Ebda, 1800-1801. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Half leather bindings (circa 1840) with gilt-stamped spine title, gilt spine and gilt-stamped cover fillets (slightly rubbed, corners restored). First editions, first printing. - Berend 13a and 14 - Goedeke V, 464, 14 - The preface to the Comic Appendix (VIII p.) is bound after the title of the first "volume"; it actually appeared with the second and belongs here, according to the code, before p.37 - "... der Titan (stellt) den Höhepunkt von Jean Pauls Schaffen darstellt. Hermann A. Korff's characterization ... as 'the greatest effort of the second generation' has given the literary significance ... after a long period of misjudgment ... also for the Goethe school, and W. Harich's judgment, which calls Titan 'the greatest novel in the German language', has finally given the work recognition even in the completely different ideological camp, which had long been hostile to it." (KNLL VIII, 686). - Some foxing, bookplate on the inside covers. Good copy, decoratively bound. VAT: *
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