GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)]. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers . Leipzig: Weygand, 1774. 2 parts in one volume, 8 o (150 x 93 mm). Collation: A-G 8; H-O 8 (A1r title Erster Theil , A1v blank, A2r text; H1r title Zweyter Theil , H1v blank, H2r text, O8r errata). Single stock of watermarked, laid paper. Gothic type. Engraved vignette by Adam Friedrich Oeser on the first title, woodcut vignette on the second title. (Some light browning.) Contemporary calf, gilt spine with morocco lettering-pieces, marbled endpapers; folding cloth case. Provenance : [Sotheby's London, 3 November 1975, l31, to Quaritch] FIRST EDITION, first issue with the errata on the final page. Outer formes of sheets A and G in the first state, with the misprints on pages 16 and 101. Werther is the essential novel of the Sturm und Drang , publication of which made Goethe famous overnight. It generated waves of imitation, both in literature and in real life. FINE COPY. Hagen 80; Kippenberg I-3039; Wilpert/Gühring 11.
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)]. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers . Leipzig: Weygand, 1774. 2 parts in one volume, 8 o (150 x 93 mm). Collation: A-G 8; H-O 8 (A1r title Erster Theil , A1v blank, A2r text; H1r title Zweyter Theil , H1v blank, H2r text, O8r errata). Single stock of watermarked, laid paper. Gothic type. Engraved vignette by Adam Friedrich Oeser on the first title, woodcut vignette on the second title. (Some light browning.) Contemporary calf, gilt spine with morocco lettering-pieces, marbled endpapers; folding cloth case. Provenance : [Sotheby's London, 3 November 1975, l31, to Quaritch] FIRST EDITION, first issue with the errata on the final page. Outer formes of sheets A and G in the first state, with the misprints on pages 16 and 101. Werther is the essential novel of the Sturm und Drang , publication of which made Goethe famous overnight. It generated waves of imitation, both in literature and in real life. FINE COPY. Hagen 80; Kippenberg I-3039; Wilpert/Gühring 11.
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