NERVAL, Gérard de.
Lorely, souvenirs d’Allemagne.
Paris, D. Giraud et J. Dagneau, 1852.
8vo, with an allegorical engraved frontispiece of the Lorelei by Veyrassat, and a lithographed ms. legend, pp. [iv], xvi, 356; a very good copy, uncut in the original yellow printed wrappers, spine repaired (wrappers dated 1853 with mention of ‘deuxième tirage').
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Lorely, souvenirs d’Allemagne.
First edition, second issue, of a collection of Nerval’s writings on Germany. German Romanticism had a great influence on Nerval, and he was drawn to the country, visiting it seven times. At the age of 20, he published a translation of Faust which Goethe himself praised. Lorely opens with a long preface to Jules Janin, and continues with ‘Sensations d’un voyageur enthousiaste’, ‘Rhin et Flandre’, ‘Les Fêtes de Hollande’, and ‘Scènes de la vie allemande’: the first complete edition of the prose drama Leo Burckart (first edition 1839), written in collaboration with Alexandre Dumas.
Carteret II, p. 219.