CONSTANT (Benjamin), [STAËL-HOLSTEIN (Germaine de)]. Wallste - Lot 416

CONSTANT (Benjamin), [STAËL-HOLSTEIN (Germaine de)]. Wallstein, tragédie en 5 actes et en vers, précédée de quelques réflexions sur le théâtre allemand, et suivie de notes historiques, par Benjamin Constant de Rebecque. A Paris, A Genève, chez J.J. Paschoud, 1809. In-8, LII-214 p., [1] f. errata, contemporary havane combed basane, smooth spine, red title-piece, richly decorated with flowering vase and semis of stars on a latticework background, framed in double gilt fillet, lemon edges spotted blue (binding rubbed, headbands worn, hinges partly uncovered, corners dull; browning in the margins of the flyleaf and endpapers). First edition of this free translation of Schiller's drama Wallenstein. First French translation and especially adaptation, accompanied by a literary manifesto in the preface, possibly by Germaine de Staël, with whom the translator had an affair.