A new historically oriented edition of the central texts by Jean Paul has been available since 2009 For the first time it presents the two printed versions of the Quintus Fixlein in side by side comparison Continuous text First 1796 Edition with a lemmatized variant apparatus Second 1801 Edition The History of my foreword to the second edition of the Quintus Fixlein previously published separately is edited in the same way First critical examination of the textual history of Quintus Fixlein and the History of my foreword Provides the reader with previously inaccessible material essential for understanding the particularly productive phase in this classic author s life in the 1790s