(Nicolai, Friedrich). Confidential letters from Adelheid B. to her friend Julie S. 1 Bl., 242 pp., 1 bl. 17.5 x 11 cm. Simple cardboard band d. Z. (breath and toast) with subtle gold plating and gold-embossed RSchild. Berlin and Szczecin, Friedrich Nicolai, 1799. Goedeke IV/1, 504, 37. Catalogue Nicolai 226. – First edition of Nicolai's anonymously written satirical epistle novel, in which he opposes the romantic marriage conception of the Schlegel brothers. "Disguise the Romantics" (Goedeke). – A little sticky and brownish.