26.2 x 18.5 cm. Large, hand-painted title and 39 pages. Original calfskin vellum binding with spine and cover titles, cover fillets, and full gilt edges. - One of 50 copies of the special edition on heavy laid paper and bound in calfskin vellum. This one bears the imprint "Publisher's Copy." A word-for-word and phonetic reprint of the first publication of Novalis's fragments, which appeared under the same title in Schlegel's Athenaeum, Volume One, First Piece, Berlin 1798. Printed in bold, cookery type. Edited by Ludwig Goldscheider. Published as the 5th Phaidon edition. Immaculately preserved. - Rodenberg 455.