JERRMANN, Eduard. Caligula. Historisches Schauspiel in fünf Aufzügen … Frei bearbeitet nach dem Französischen … Mannheim, gedruckt bei Hoff und Heuser. 1838. 
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8vo (195 × 120 mm), pp. xii, 116, [2]; printed on good-quality paper; contemporary polished red quarter calf, paper sides tooled in gilt, some wear to extremities, all edges gilt.
First edition of an early German reworking of Dumas’ 1837 play of the same name (published 1838, Vicaire III, col. 346), privately printed. Indeed, as the title here states, ‘this copy, printed simply for stage use, is to be regarded as a manuscript. Ownership of it does not entitle any performance of the play without the personal authorisation of the author’ (tr.). It is marked ‘Manuscript No. 1’ at the head of the title and inscribed to the author’s aunt ‘Madame P. Schlesinger’ on the front flyleaf. This is Philippine Schlesinger, wife of the Berlin publisher Adolph Martin Schlesinger (1769–1838), ‘ranked among the most important Prussian music publishers’ (New Grove). Jerrmann (1798–1859) was senior director at the theatre in Mannheim, 1836–42, before moving on to positions in St Petersburg and then Berlin. WorldCat locates 2 copies only, at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Hamburg, alongside a printing done by Schlesinger in Berlin the same year.
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Sachgebiete: Literatur bis ca. 1900, Theater
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