Peter Schlemihl
Subtitle: from the German of Lamotte Fouqué
By: with plates by George Cruickshank
Contributors: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, illustrator; Bowring, John, 1792-1872, translator; La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de, 1777-1843, editor; Sullivan, Edward, 1822-1885, former owner; Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder; G. and W. B. Whittaker; Cox and Baylis; Riviere & Son; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: First edition
Publisher: G. and W.B. Whittaker
Published: 1824
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Shades and shadows; Fiction; Devil; Happiness
Work titles: Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte
Notes: Original German was edited by La Motte Fouqué.

Translated by Sir John Bowring.

This edition is known to exist in three states. State 1 has the date 1823 on the t.p.; state 2 has date changed to 1824 and publisher's address on title page is hyphenated: Ave-Maria Lane; state 3 has title page dated 1824 and the address has no hyphen. Cruikshank's name is misspelled "Cruickshank" and page ix, lines 4-5 has misspelling "aukwardness" for "awkwardness" in all three states, but both were corrected for the 2nd edition, published later in 1824. See: Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank.

Plates accompanied by guard sheets.

Rare Book copy: Bound in are two original drawings signed by Cruikshank, a preliminary drawing of the frontispiece in pencil, but with an additional flying figure, and a series of pen-and-ink sketches for "Seven League Boots" (plate facing page 147), inscribed to F. Keesey of Birmingham on verso. Second state with date of 1824 and hyphenated publisher's address on title page; plates lack guard sheets; publisher's catalog bound at end; annotation on lower flyleaf: "Craddock's sale, 7 March 1907."

Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, entry 475

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: From the library of Sir Edward Sullivan, with his armorial bookplate.

Rare Book copy: Bound in full red straight-grained leather, sewn on five supports; upper and lower covers with gold-tooled borders; smooth spine, gilt in compartments; gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; three-color silk endbands; signed "Bound by F. Bedford" on upper flyleaf; in pull-off box of red goatskin, signed by Riviere & Son.