8vo. 160 pp, +13 lithographs by Karl Chylmann, illustrated Hardboards, lightly faded, weak hinges, otherwise copy clean & in very good condition, Kurt Wolff Verlag, Leipzig, 1917.

Synopsis

Hoffmann’s novella, The Golden Pot A tale from the new era, [Der Goldne Topf. Ein Märchen aus der Neuen Zeit], a modern Fairytale was first published in 1814. Hoffmann regarded it as his best story (Kaiser 1988, 37), and there is wide agreement among literary scholars that it is a masterpiece of romantic literature (Feldges & Stadler 1986, 64).
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (January 24, 1776 – June 25, 1822), better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. He is the subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach’s famous but fictional opera The Tales of Hoffmann, and the author of the novelette The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppelia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote.
Hoffmann’s stories were very influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement.