first edition
1821 · London
by GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von
London: Boosey and Sons, 1821. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. . Faustus. From The German of Goethe London: Boosey and Sons, 1821.
Full Description:
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. [COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor, translator]. Faustus. From The German of Goethe London: Boosey and Sons, 1821.
First English edition, [translated by Coleridge ?]. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 225 x 140 mm). [viii], 86, [1, list of plates], [1, errata] pp. With half-title and frontispiece portrait of Goethe.
Uncut in original drab olive green boards. Professionally rebacked to style. Printed paper spine label. Board edges rubbed. Corners bumped. Newer endpapers. Pages with some foxing throughout. Overall a very good copy.
Although not stated in the book, it recently has become widely accepted that Coleridge was the translator of this first English edition. A book published in 2007 entitled "Faustus: From the German of Goethe Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge" and edited by Coleridge scholars Frederick Burwick and James C. McKusick establishes Coleridge as the translator of Goethe's Faust. The recent discovery of Coleridge's translation of Faustus is considered "A major literary discovery will heat the blood of 19th century Romantic scholars around the world and profoundly change the course of Romantic literature." (Betsy Cohen, Rare Book Review, January 2007)
The list of plates at the end of the 1821 text correlates with the plates issued in 1820 by Henry Moses in the Retsch edition, and the two, because they were issued separately, are rarely found together.
HBS 69378.
$3,000. (Inventory #: 69378)
Full Description:
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. [COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor, translator]. Faustus. From The German of Goethe London: Boosey and Sons, 1821.
First English edition, [translated by Coleridge ?]. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 225 x 140 mm). [viii], 86, [1, list of plates], [1, errata] pp. With half-title and frontispiece portrait of Goethe.
Uncut in original drab olive green boards. Professionally rebacked to style. Printed paper spine label. Board edges rubbed. Corners bumped. Newer endpapers. Pages with some foxing throughout. Overall a very good copy.
Although not stated in the book, it recently has become widely accepted that Coleridge was the translator of this first English edition. A book published in 2007 entitled "Faustus: From the German of Goethe Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge" and edited by Coleridge scholars Frederick Burwick and James C. McKusick establishes Coleridge as the translator of Goethe's Faust. The recent discovery of Coleridge's translation of Faustus is considered "A major literary discovery will heat the blood of 19th century Romantic scholars around the world and profoundly change the course of Romantic literature." (Betsy Cohen, Rare Book Review, January 2007)
The list of plates at the end of the 1821 text correlates with the plates issued in 1820 by Henry Moses in the Retsch edition, and the two, because they were issued separately, are rarely found together.
HBS 69378.
$3,000. (Inventory #: 69378)
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