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Lot 133
Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022
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Live / Philadelphia
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[Private Press] [Doves Press, The] Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust eine tragoedie von Goethe
(Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1906-10). In two volumes. First edition (first part, one of 300 copies on paper; second part, one of 250 copies on paper). Small 4to. 260, (1); 373, (1) pp. Printed in red and in black. Original limp vellum, stamped in gilt; some discoloration to vellum, as usual; in grey cloth leather-entry slip case. Tidcombe DP10 and DP20; Tompkinson pp. 55-56, 10 and 20
Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker from the 1887 and 1889 Weimar Editions. A near-fine set of this Doves Press classic.
From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003).