695 - Novalis (that is: Fr. von Hardenberg). Writings. Edited by Ludwig Tieck and Friedrich Schlegel. 2 volumes. Berlin, Buchhandlung der Realschule, 1802. 1 folio, XII, 338 pp.; 1 leaf, 552 pp. 16 x 9.5 cm. Contemporary half-leather bindings with spine label and simple gilt lettering on the spine (slightly rubbed; upper front joint of Volume 2 chipped).

Novalis (that is: Fr. von Hardenberg). Writings. Edited by Ludwig Tieck and Friedrich Schlegel. 2 volumes. Berlin, Buchhandlung der Realschule, 1802. 1 folio, XII, 338 pp.; 1 leaf, 552 pp. 16 x 9.5 cm. Contemporary half-leather bindings with spine label and simple gilt lettering on the spine (slightly rubbed; upper front joint of Volume 2 chipped). First edition and first book publication by Novalis, published one year after his death. — Printed in a run of only 500 copies. - Contains the first printed versions of *Heinrich von Ofterdingen* and *Die Lehrlinge zu Sais*, the fragments *Blüthenstaub* first published in *Äthenäum* in 1798, as well as the poems, notably the famous *Hymns to the Night*. - An important document of German Romanticism. - Owner’s inscription from 1851 on the title page. - Somewhat stained in places; a few marginal notes in pencil. *