With important provenance

Kleist, Heinrich von. Das Käthchen von Heilbronn oder die Feuerprobe. Ein großes historisches Ritterschauspiel.

€ 9,500.00

First edition.

Prettily bound and well preserved: a crisp and wide-margined copy, only slightly browned with very occasional foxing. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "Meinem Freunde Eduard Ludolff für -- / W. Haering / Berl. d. 8ten Novbr. 1821", probably by the writer Wilhelm Haering, known under his pen name Willibald Alexis, for his school-friend, the lawyer Eduard Ludolff (1797-1857), who squandered his fortune on the arts and artists and later drowned himself; with another ownership, dated 1908 (Achim von Steman?). Acquired from the estate of the Frankfurt lawyer Wilhelm A. Schaaf (1929-2015), a specialist in economic, commercial and insolvency law.