Pensées de Jean Paul

Jean Paul Richter

Pensées de Jean Paul

Extraites de tous ses ouvrages ; traduites de l'allemand par M. le Mis de la Grange

Paris ; Strasbourg

F. G. Levrault

Paul Renouard, rue Garancière, No. 5

1836

Paris ; Strasbourg : F. G. Levrault, 1836

French

Deuxième édition

Pensées de Jean Paul Richter

Selection of writings by Jean Paul Richter

German

M. le Mis de la Grange

Not identified

[4], XVI, 346 p.

No illustrations apart from typographical ornaments

None

Octavo (8vo)

21.4 × 13.8 cm

Not identified

Laid paper

Not identified

Sound, with light foxing and traces of old moisture staining

Brown half leather with embossed cloth-covered boards

Gilt tooling on spine and decorative rules on covers

Contemporary marbled paper

Good, with moderate wear to corners and spine ends

Collection of thoughts, aphorisms, and selected passages extracted from the works of Jean Paul Richter and translated into French.

Preface to the second edition.

Catalogue of the works of Jean Paul Richter.

Selection of philosophical, moral, religious, and literary reflections.

Second edition published in 1836 after the first edition of 1829 had sold out, as stated in the publisher's preface.

Representative example of the dissemination of German Romantic literature in France during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Copy preserved in its historical binding.

German literature

German Romanticism

Moral philosophy

Aphorisms

Nineteenth-century European thought

Literary translation

0695

Good

Biblioteca de Alfred Gallart i Genis

Complete copy. Final page numbered 346 with the typographical ending “FIN”. Laid paper visible when held to the light. Historical half-leather and embossed cloth binding. Contains an unidentified early manuscript signature on the final leaf.