[Rarebooks] For Sale: Friedrich Matthissons' poetry

[Norman Kane]

We can supply the following rarity of German romantic poetry:

MATTHISSON, FRIEDRICH  [VON].   GEDICHTE.   Carlsruhe: Christian 
Gottlieb Schmieder, 1806.     Small octavo, 150,[2]; 76,[2] 
pages.  The last section is a supplement dated 1801. Paper-backed 
marbled boards, rubbed, spine worn, title leaf lightly soiled, but a 
good, sound copy.  Nice vignette on title page by the noted engraver 
Anton Karcher.  Matthisson was given a sinecure as Chief Librarian in 
the service of the King of Wuerttenberg; his poetry was much admired 
for its "melancholy sweetness", as evidenced in the last stanza of 
"Adelaide", which was set to music by Beethoven: "Einst, o Wunder, 
entblueht, auf meinem Grabe, / Eine Blume der Asche meines Herzens; / 
Deutlich schimmert auf jedem  Purpurblaettchen: /  Adelaide."
Schubert also set his poetry to music.  OCLC locates a copy at  Chapel Hill,
(a purported Yale copy and a 2nd copy at Chapel Hill turn out to be 
the edn of 1912-13.)  There is a 2nd  title leaf for the series: 
"Sammlung der besten
deutschen prosaischen Schriftsteller & Dichter."  Scarce, to say the 
least.       $150.00

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