GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Faustus. London: Boosey and Sons, 1821. 4° (215 x 131mm). (Faint dampstaining, more pronounced at end, light soiling.) Contemporary half calf (extremities rubbed).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Although published anonymously, this translation is attributed to Coleridge by Frederick Burwick and James McKusick in the most recent edition (OUP, 2007). An abstract of the first part of Goethe's tragedy, it was issued to accompany the separately-published series of plates by Henry Moses after Moritz Retzsch.
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Faustus. London: Boosey and Sons, 1821. 4° (215 x 131mm). (Faint dampstaining, more pronounced at end, light soiling.) Contemporary half calf (extremities rubbed).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Although published anonymously, this translation is attributed to Coleridge by Frederick Burwick and James McKusick in the most recent edition (OUP, 2007). An abstract of the first part of Goethe's tragedy, it was issued to accompany the separately-published series of plates by Henry Moses after Moritz Retzsch.
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