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[DRAMA]. SCHILLER, Friedrich von (1759-1805). Die Braut von Messina oder die feindlichen Bruder, ein Trauerspiel mit Choren . Tubingen: Cotta, 1803. [Offered with:] BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799). Die wahre Geschichte des Clavigo. Aus dem Französischen der Memoiren des Herrn von Beaumarchais ü bersetzt . Hamburg: Herold, 1774. First editions. I. First issue of Schiller’s tragedy The bride of Messina , set in Sicily in the early Christian era. It premiered in Weimar in March 1803 to controversial reception, due to its evident references to Greek tragedies, thought at the time to be obsolete, and perhaps to its dealing with the encounter between paganism and Christianity. This copy carries the very rare extra leaf of errata not noted by Marcuse, and bears the uncorrected error in p. xiv line 23 (‘ebendig’ raher than lebendig’). Marcuse 240; Goedeke V, 227, 96. II. First edition in German, a source for Goethe’s early tragedy. The Spanish naturalist José Clavijo y Fajardo, editor of the literary periodical El pensador, engaged in a love affair with Louise, sister of the French playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Their story was dramatized by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in his tragedy Clavigo , which appeared in the same year 1774. Cordier, Beaumarchais 312. Two volumes, octavo. I. (195 x 115mm). With the rare errata leaf at end. Contemporary boards, gilt morocco lettering-piece (corners bumped and rubbed, joints and edges rubbed, a few surface abrasions. Provenance : Joseph Schlemmer (1767-1830, bookplate and manuscript notes on ffep). II. (165 x 85mm). With engraved head-piece and initial, and title vignette (light browning.) Modern vellum-backed boards.