First edition. - 19 x 13 cm. 176 pages. Illustrated original cloth binding with spine and cover titles. This short novel, the shortest Fontane wrote, presents an aristocratic counterpart to the novel "Frau Jenny Treibel," which is set in a middle-class milieu. The story was so successful that two further editions followed in the same year as the first edition. A very fine copy. - Wilpert/Gühring 2/42. - Schobeß 234.