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First edition of Goethe\u2019s Works, with the first printing of <\/span>Faust<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Ein Fragment.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n “The first that the world in general knew of Goethe\u2019s Faust was the work entitled Faust. Ein Fragment<\/i>, published in Leipzig by G\u00f6schen, which appeared in 1790 in the seventh volume of the poet\u2019s Collected Writings (Schriften<\/i>) and also as a separate publication. Its 2,137 lines present the despairing scholar\u2019s opening monologue and his conversation with Wagner, the close of the \u2018pact\u2019 scene and the succeeding scenes from \u2018Auerbachs Keller\u2019 as far as and including the Cathedral scene, giving the story of Faust\u2019s introduction into the world and his love for Gretchen, except for its final catastrophe\u2019 (Alexander Gillies, Goethe\u2019s Faust. An Interpretation<\/i>, 1957).<\/p>\n The edition is illustrated with eight engraved frontispieces by Johann Heinrich Lips, Christian Gottlieb Geyser (after the drawings by Johann Heinrich Ramberg), D. Berger, Jakob Wilhelm Mechau, and Angelica Kauffmann. The engraved vignettes to each of the titles are by Geyser or Gr\u00f6gory after Johann Wilhelm Mail, Daniel Chodowiecki, Adam Friedrich Oeser, and Lips. Volume three has the rare vignettes to pages 3 and 136. As noted by Hagen, several variant printings of this first edition are known. The present copy with the corrected title page to volume I and volumes IV, V and VII in the corrected state; volume III with the rare vignettes on pages 3 and 136.<\/p>\n A beautifully bound copy in excellent state of conservation of this monument of German literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 8 volumes, 8vo (161 x 95 mm) XXVI (list of subscribers), 310pp. for volume I; title, 368pp. for volume II; title, 292pp. for volume III; title, IV pp. [additional list of subscribers], 284pp. for volume IV; title, 4 nn.ll., 388pp. for volume V; title, 300pp. for volume VI; title, 320pp. for volume VII; title, 342 pp. for volume VIII. Contemporary polished calf, gilt filet on covers, flat spines richly gilt, red edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":73891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[1240,1245,1450,1391],"class_list":{"0":"post-73896","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-18th-century-illustrations","8":"product_tag-18th-century-literature","9":"product_tag-first-edition","10":"product_tag-germany-austria","11":"pa_auteur-goethe-johann-wolfgang-von-2","12":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":"Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE","chapeau":"The first printing of Faust","adresse_bibliographique":"Leipzig, Johann Georg G\u00f6schen, 1787-1790","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n