Blue cloth boards. Translated from the Swedish by Arthur G. Chater, and with an introduction by Havelock Ellis. Frontis is engraved portrait of Rahel Varnhagen. Gold lettering on spine is rubbed as are the edges of the spine. Front ins ide hinge has started. Owner's bookplate on front paste down. Small stain on top corner of inside pages. Minor foxing. Top edge is discolored. Last 6 pages are advertisments for Putnam books. The author's aim "has been to give a portrait of the grea test woman the Jewish race has produced; to my mind also the greatest woman Germany can call her daughter." Rahel Varnhagen (1771-1833), wife of German poet, historian and journalist Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, was a friend and supporter of many artists of the German romantic period.