Faust: A Tragedy (two volumes)
first edition Hardcover
1871 · Boston:
by GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang Von
Boston:: Fields, Osgood, & Co.,. Very Good. 1871. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Translated from the German, in the original metres, by Bayard Taylor. The first volume is a later printing, the second volume is a first edition thus. Large octavos, bound in green buckram with gilt lettering and borders along the spines, top edges gilt, 405 pages in the first volume and 536 pages in the second. Both volumes have a damp stain at the base of the fore edge and some light age toning to the page edges, the second volume has some creasing and tearing to the fore edges of a few of the pages in the introduction, else both volumes are very good. No dust jackets. . (Inventory #: 25174)