Julius von Voss, Neuere Lustspiele. Berlin, Schuppel'schen Buchhandlung, 1821. Rare first edition of this collection of plays by the popular German author Julius von Voss (1768-1832). Wikipedia: His rapidity of literary production was almost without a parallel. He published about 160 works (plays, novels, and short stories) and a large number of works remained unpublished. His best novel is Die Schildbürger (1823), a comical novel about Schildbürger, residents of Schilda, a fictional German town of fools. He wrote many comedies, farces, and satirical parodies. In The Strahlau Haul of Fish (1822, a popular piece with songs, in the Berlin patois) he gives the first example of the Berlinese farce. Ini. Ein Roman aus dem ein und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert (Ini. A novel from the 21st century, 1810) is regarded as the first German science fiction novel. This copy in an attractive half leather binding, with blue edges and marbled paper pasted on the front and back cover. Pages very clean and unmarked. With the etched exlibris of Adolf Fischer.