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Rare and modern books

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von.

G tz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand. Ein Schauspiel.

[Darmstadt, G H. Eylausche Erben (J. G. Wittich) f r Merck im - Selbstverlag], 1773.,

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Author
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von.
Publishers
[Darmstadt, G H. Eylausche Erben (J. G. Wittich) f r Merck im, Selbstverlag], 1773.
Keyword
Literature prior to 1880
Languages
English

Description

Small 8vo. 206 pp. Contemporary half calf, with two labels to spine, stored in a two-piece leather slipcase. Rare first edition, self-published by Goethe and Merck in a very small press run. This first impression of the play about the maverick adventurer-poet G tz von Berlichingen contains the hero's famously profane "Swabian salute" unexpurged (p. 133); it was truncated in later editions. In spite of sluggish initial sales, the play enjoyed a sensational success, making the author instantly famous and calling forth severe criticism as well as praise. - Some brownstaining and fingerstaining. Provenance: handwritten ownership "Louis Pr schamps" (ca. 1880) on title-page; an old annotation on the final leaf has been removed. Acquired from the estate of the Frankfurt lawyer Wilhelm A. Schaaf (1929-2015), a specialist in economic, commercial and insolvency law. - Hagen 46. WG 6. Goedeke IV, 3, 143, 2. Kippenberg I, 348. Brieger 682. Hirzel A 33. Speck 712. Goethe-Bibliothek Meyer 23.
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