Dieses Buch, die erste Ausgabe der sämtlich in der selben Zeit wie "Der Garten der Erkenntnis" geschriebenen Gedichte Leopold Andrians wurde im Jahre MDCCCCXIII im Auftrage von De Zilverdistel, im Haag, bei Johannes Enschedé en Zonen, in Haarlem, in hundertfünfzig Exemplaren gedruckt.
Andrian wrote mainly stories and impressionist poems. He was close friends with Hermann Bahr, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Arthur Schnitzler and is considered to be one of the authors of the fin de siècle period and Junges Wien, writing the bulk of his work in the period from 1890 to 1910.
In 1938, after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany and the banning of his pamphlet "Österreich im Prisma der Idee. Katechismus der Führenden", Andrian emigrated to Nice, from there to Spain, Portugal and then to Brazil, where he lived a rather secluded life.
After traveling to Rhodesia and South Africa, he returned to Fribourg in Switzerland, where he died in 1951.