• Publication: Peter SchlemihlPublication Record # 766513
• Author: Lamotte Fouqué
• Date: 1824-00-00
• Publisher: Wells and Lilly
• Pages: viii+139
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes: 1st US ed. This is an edition of the 1823 Bowring translation from the 1st English-language publication of the story (UK, Whittaker). It retains spelling "Cruickshank" on the title page, "With Plates by George Cruickshank". HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with cover that may not be original. -- title page -- "Notice", p[v], closes "The Translator" (as in some other eds.) -- "Author's Introduction", p[vii]-viii, lacks a closing (such as "Adelbert von Chamisso", perhaps with a date) -- "To My Friend Wangner!", p[ix], uncredited and unsigned 14-line poem The narrative spans pp. [1]-139 and there are no back pages. WorldCat library records cited below (OCLC, 4) are all of those found 2020-03-28 for this edition, including microform and online; not found at Library of Congress.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 40549519 10216659 237577670 682445557

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• v • Notice (Peter Schlemihl) • (1823) • essay by Sir John Bowring [as by uncredited]
• vii • Author's Introduction (Peter Schlemihl) • [Peter Schlemihl] • (1823) • short fiction by Adelbert von Chamisso (trans. of Vorwort. An Freund Eduard. 1814) [as by Lamotte Fouqué]
• 1 • Peter Schlemihl • [Peter Schlemihl] • (1823) • novella by Adelbert von Chamisso (trans. of Peter Schlemihl's wundersame Geschichte 1814) [as by Lamotte Fouqué]