Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Johan Christian Dahl, Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Spitzweg. Short satirical pieces on the illusions people live by - fashion, reputation, patriotism, romance - by the physician and critic whose Degeneration had made him famous and disliked across Europe. This edition pairs the text with sixty plates of painting from 1750–1860, among them works by Carl Spitzweg, Johann Friedrich Grooth and John Rathbone, in Mary J. Safford's translation.