De l'Allemagne
By: par Mme. la baronne de Staël Holstein
Edition: Seconde édition
Publisher: Paris, H. Nicolle, à la Librairie Stéréotype, rue de Seine, no. 12. 1810; Réimprimé par John Murray, Albemarle-street, Londres
Published: 1813
Place of publication: London
Language: fre
Subjects: German literature; History and criticism; German National characteristics; Intellectual life
Notes: A reprint of the first London edition.

The first ed. of this work was destroyed on Napoleon's orders while in press for H. Nicolle in 1810, only a few copies remain (cf. Lonchamp 90).; the 1st London ed. was revised by the author from a proof copy of the original ed.

Lonchamp, 92

This copy is presumably the one entered as "lot 1152" in the Sotheby Catalogue of the Wilks sale, May 12, 1851 & thereby identified as an example of the forgeries of "Major" Byron (cf. T.G. Ehrsam, Major Byron: the incredible career of a literary forger, 1951, p. 82-83). The 1813 ed. of this work does not appear in the 1813, 1816 & 1827 Evans auction catalogues of books from Byron's library; the 1818 ed. is listed in the 1827 catalogue. The name "Byron" appears in ms. in each vol. & v. 1 contains a 3-page inscription beginning "The notes with which Lady C--- has enriched these volumes--- are by no means discreditable to her ladyship". Pencilled annotations in another hand occur occasionally in all 3 vols.; one, in still another hand, on p. 262 of v. 1 is signed "EP". Possibly it was intended that "Lady C---" be identified as Lady Caroline (Ponsonby) Lamb.