Karl Lamprecht "Der Kaiser. Versuch einer Charakteristik", Weidmann Berlin 1916, Fraktur – Antique History Book

An antique history book: "Der Kaiser. Versuch einer Charakteristik" (The Kaiser: An Attempt at a Characterization) by the Leipzig historian Karl Lamprecht – published in 1916 by Weidmannsche Buchhandlung in Berlin (second, unaltered edition), printed in Fraktur (German blackletter).

Content & Significance

Lamprecht (1856–1915) was among the best-known and most debated German historians of his time. In this work he attempts a psychological-historical portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm II – a document of the First World War years that shows how the German Empire saw itself. The text is in German.

Details & Condition

• Author: Karl Lamprecht
• Publisher: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin
• Year: 1916, 2nd unaltered edition
• Typeface: Fraktur; language: German
• Binding: original publisher's hardcover
• Size: approx. 21.5 × 14.3 cm / 8.5 × 5.6 in
• Condition: consistent with age; cover with wear and edge rubbing, spine darkened; binding firm, occasional foxing; handwritten owner's inscription on the endpaper

Who It's For

For collectors of historical literature and contemporary history, for historians or as a stylish piece for a Dark Academia library.

At the flea market in Gmünd the book lay in a box of old atlases – the inscription on the endpaper tells of a reader who opened it more than a hundred years ago.

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