8vo. Two volumes bound as one. [2], xvi, 348, [4], 364pp. Recent navy morocco backed mottled boards. Minor wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers, title-page laid-down due to tearing, loss to bottom corner of p.195-6, second half-title with repaired tear, some minor browning thought overall clean.

A French translation of the correspondence, hitherto unpublished in France, between the 58 year old German intellectual and the 21 year old Bettina von Arnim, poet and collector of folk songs. The volumes provide a wealth of information on the artistic, aesthetic, and literary discussions in Germany from 1807 to 1832.