12mo. [4], 335pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's cloth-backed buff paper boards. Rubbed and marked, surface loss to spine, heavily sunned. Ticket of Exeter based booksellers S. Drayton & Sons to FEP, later inked gift inscription to title pages, scattered spotting RFEP torn away.

The first English edition of Johann Ludwig Tieck's (1773-1853) novella, The Old Man of the Mountain, alongside several other tales. A founding father of Romanticism, Tieck works include themes of the pastoral and supernatural which would become characteristic of the movement.