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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Faust. Eine Tragödie. Tübingen: Cotta, 1808.
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Faust. Eine Tragödie. Tübingen: Cotta, 1808.
First separate edition of the complete text of Faust Part I, corrected and in a new setting after the first appearance of the text in vol. 8 of the Works (1806-1810). ‘The subject of Faust occupied Goethe's mind almost the whole of his life […] It was at Schiller’s instigation that Goethe began in 1797 to work again at Faust, and the idea soon arose of treating the story in two parts. In the next ten years he added the scene Studierzimmer, in which Faust enters into the pact with Mephisto, and the scenes Vor dem Tor and Walpurgisnacht, and published the work, together with the dedicatory ode, the prologue on the stage, and the prologue in Heaven, as Pt. 1 in 1808’ (Oxford Companion to German Literature). Most of the work on Part 2 came in the years after 1826; it was published, irregularly, in 1828-31 and then together in 1832. Hagen 310.
12mo (123 x 94mm) (a little light spotting). Later 19th-century (possibly English) full blue morocco paneled in gilt. Provenance: late 19th-century manuscript note in English (front flyleaf).
First separate edition of the complete text of Faust Part I, corrected and in a new setting after the first appearance of the text in vol. 8 of the Works (1806-1810). ‘The subject of Faust occupied Goethe's mind almost the whole of his life […] It was at Schiller’s instigation that Goethe began in 1797 to work again at Faust, and the idea soon arose of treating the story in two parts. In the next ten years he added the scene Studierzimmer, in which Faust enters into the pact with Mephisto, and the scenes Vor dem Tor and Walpurgisnacht, and published the work, together with the dedicatory ode, the prologue on the stage, and the prologue in Heaven, as Pt. 1 in 1808’ (Oxford Companion to German Literature). Most of the work on Part 2 came in the years after 1826; it was published, irregularly, in 1828-31 and then together in 1832. Hagen 310.
12mo (123 x 94mm) (a little light spotting). Later 19th-century (possibly English) full blue morocco paneled in gilt. Provenance: late 19th-century manuscript note in English (front flyleaf).
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Faust. Eine Tragödie. Tübingen: Cotta, 1808.
First separate edition of the complete text of Faust Part I, corrected and in a new setting after the first appearance of the text in vol. 8 of the Works (1806-1810). ‘The subject of Faust occupied Goethe's mind almost the whole of his life […] It was at Schiller’s instigation that Goethe began in 1797 to work again at Faust, and the idea soon arose of treating the story in two parts. In the next ten years he added the scene Studierzimmer, in which Faust enters into the pact with Mephisto, and the scenes Vor dem Tor and Walpurgisnacht, and published the work, together with the dedicatory ode, the prologue on the stage, and the prologue in Heaven, as Pt. 1 in 1808’ (Oxford Companion to German Literature). Most of the work on Part 2 came in the years after 1826; it was published, irregularly, in 1828-31 and then together in 1832. Hagen 310.
12mo (123 x 94mm) (a little light spotting). Later 19th-century (possibly English) full blue morocco paneled in gilt. Provenance: late 19th-century manuscript note in English (front flyleaf).
First separate edition of the complete text of Faust Part I, corrected and in a new setting after the first appearance of the text in vol. 8 of the Works (1806-1810). ‘The subject of Faust occupied Goethe's mind almost the whole of his life […] It was at Schiller’s instigation that Goethe began in 1797 to work again at Faust, and the idea soon arose of treating the story in two parts. In the next ten years he added the scene Studierzimmer, in which Faust enters into the pact with Mephisto, and the scenes Vor dem Tor and Walpurgisnacht, and published the work, together with the dedicatory ode, the prologue on the stage, and the prologue in Heaven, as Pt. 1 in 1808’ (Oxford Companion to German Literature). Most of the work on Part 2 came in the years after 1826; it was published, irregularly, in 1828-31 and then together in 1832. Hagen 310.
12mo (123 x 94mm) (a little light spotting). Later 19th-century (possibly English) full blue morocco paneled in gilt. Provenance: late 19th-century manuscript note in English (front flyleaf).
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