Two printed works bound together with manuscript material

Gwinner, Wilhelm

Arthur Schopenhauer aus personlichem Umgange dargestellt. Ein Blick auf sein Leben, seinen Charakter und seine Lehre [with] Schopenhauer und seine Freunde. Zur Beleuchtung der Frauenstadt-Lindner'schen Vertheidigung Schopenhauer's sowie zur Erganzung der Schrift: 'Arthur Schopenhauer aus personlichem Umgange dargestellt' [with] German Manuscript

Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1863. Half-Leather. Good / No Jacket. Item #2331625

Rebound, leather spine over marbled boards, gilt titles. Following text, eighteen leaves bound in, with manuscript notes by a previous owner numbered pp. [1]-27 (pages 5-10 and blank leaves following p. 27 blank). Also includes tipped in sketch of a building with brief notes on front endpaper. Folding frontispiece of second work was restored at one point but needs repair again, boards rubbed, ink name and notes in same hand as bound in manuscript material on front flyleaf.

x, [2], 239, [3], 91 pp. German text. Two works released shortly after Schopenhauer's death, by the last friend to visit him. Gwinner examines his friend's life, character, and teachings, as well as contemporary reactions to his thought. Schopenhauer, best known for The World as Will and Representation, built on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant.

Price: $175.00