Rare beautiful 14 volumes set

Attractively bound set in original 3/4  leather bindings!

 

Complete

 Goethe's Works

Published circa 1890's

 

"WEIMAR EDITION number: 277"

 

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Book description:

Rare Goethe's translated works in English. Translated by: John Storer Cobb, Theodore Martin, Thomas Carlyle..etc. 3/4 leather. Publisher: Privately printed for subscribers: Weimar Edition., circa 1890's. Marble endpapers. Illustrated with full page engravings (some in color). Top edges of pages in gild. Size: 6" x 8 3/4" tall. Total shelf space: 23"

6 volumes have minor, professional leather repairs mainly to the top of spines (see photos) not seriously effecting quality of set's condition. 

Rare Victorian edition of classic works of Goethe.

Overall condition: VERY GOOD.

 

Price: $850

 

14 volumes include:

 

-Poetical Works: vol one and vol two

-Faust: vol one and vol two

-Wilhelm Meister's Travels: vol one and vol two

-Sorrows of Young Werther: vol one and vol two

-Iphigenia in Tauris: one complete volume

-Letters from Switzerland: one complete volume

 

-Truth & Fiction: vol one and vol two

-Life of Goethe: vol one and vol two

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