GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Die Leiden des jungen Werther. Neue Ausgabe von dem Dichter selbst eingeleitet . Leipzig: Weygandsche Buchhandlung, 1825. WITH AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT DEDICATION TO FRIEDRICH DE LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ "Herrn Baron la Motte Fouqué zu Erneuerung freundlich theilnehmenden Andenckens. Weimar d.12 Jun, 1825", on front endpaper Small 8° (130x97mm). Half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait after Schwerdgeburth. (Occasional light foxing.) Later 19th-century blue morocco, edges gilt, in morocco solander case. Provenance : Robert, Marquess of Crewe (armorial bookplate). This edition was published to celebrate the half-century of the first publication of Werther , with a new poem by Goethe "Noch einmal wagst Du, vielbeweinter Schatten, hervor Dich an des Tages Licht". Goedeke IV.3,164; Hagen 100 Fouqué (1777-1843), the author of Undine , was the most widely read of all German Romantic writers. He visited Goethe in 1802 and 1813 and admired him greatly sending him copies of all his works as they were published.
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Die Leiden des jungen Werther. Neue Ausgabe von dem Dichter selbst eingeleitet . Leipzig: Weygandsche Buchhandlung, 1825. WITH AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT DEDICATION TO FRIEDRICH DE LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ "Herrn Baron la Motte Fouqué zu Erneuerung freundlich theilnehmenden Andenckens. Weimar d.12 Jun, 1825", on front endpaper Small 8° (130x97mm). Half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait after Schwerdgeburth. (Occasional light foxing.) Later 19th-century blue morocco, edges gilt, in morocco solander case. Provenance : Robert, Marquess of Crewe (armorial bookplate). This edition was published to celebrate the half-century of the first publication of Werther , with a new poem by Goethe "Noch einmal wagst Du, vielbeweinter Schatten, hervor Dich an des Tages Licht". Goedeke IV.3,164; Hagen 100 Fouqué (1777-1843), the author of Undine , was the most widely read of all German Romantic writers. He visited Goethe in 1802 and 1813 and admired him greatly sending him copies of all his works as they were published.
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