8vo (165 x 101 mm). (Light spotting to preliminary pages.) 20th-century half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, with original wrappers bound-in (light spotting on page edges); folding case. 

FIRST EDITION, THE SCARCE FIRST ISSUE, lacking the preface but with the 1 p. advertisements at the end with suppressed dedication pages to Solomon Heine, Frederick Varnhagen von Ense, and Friedrich Merkel. Later editions would be heavily edited by censors due to sexual content. Wilhelm/Galley 336; Sig. Borst 1526.