Oblong folio. Engraved. [PN] 1096. 14 pp. 9.75 x 13.25 inches (25 x 33.5 cm). Rebacked, with paper repairs to title and blank final leaf; title creased, with tear to head; browned and somewhat foxed. In good condition. Jähns 260, p. 282; Fuld p. 305 (issue f). 

First edition of Weber's most popular work for piano. Weber composed this celebrated piece in Dresden, during the summer of 1819, three years after completing his stint as director of the Estates Theatre in Prague. Fuld records 6 early printings, all published by Schlesinger in Berlin ca. 1821, and for which precedence has not been firmly established. Leopold Hirschberg records this issue as the first.