Hoffmann

1923 · réf. 21300 — Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft 1923. Limited edition. Hardcover. g. 1/1000. Sm. 4to. 150pp. Quarter vellum over illustrated paper-covered boards with gold decorated spine in original dust wrapper. Some age wear to edges. Head and tail of spine corners and parts of edges on dust wrapper chipped. Some staining and sunning on dw. Fore-page edge untrimmed as issued. Illustrated title-page. Limited German edition of Hoffmann's 3 act opera Die Maske The Mask which he wrote in 1799. "Aufgefunden und zum ersten Male veröffentlicht von Friedrich Schnapp." Illustrated with 2 full-page reproductions of drawings in sepia tone 1 facsimile letter as well as a fold-out page listing the cast. 32 pages in rear with musical scores from the opera. E.T.A. Hoffmann 1776-1822 was a composer and novelist. He was a notorious philanderer and impecunious alcoholic who possibly was the darkest of the German Romantics. Out of his reverence for Mozart he replaced his Christian name Wilhelm with Mozart's middle name to call himself Ernst Theodor Amadeus E.T.A. Hoffmann. Minor age toning to outer edges of interior pages. Text in German. Dust wrapper and binding in good interior in very good condition. Scarce with dj. Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft hardcover books