GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Goethe’s Gedichte … Neueste Auflage. Vienna: Bauer, 1815.

Very rare decorative pocket edition, first thus, printed on blue paper and in the original wrappers and slipcase, of Goethe’s collected poems. The first separate edition of Goethe’s collected poems had appeared in Tübingen in 1812; a second was published in 1815. In that same year the Vienna publisher Bauer produced a two-volume selection, and with the present edition he added a third volume which included several more texts as well as a new frontispiece. Not in Hagen; not in Goedecke (Hagen 375 is a reprint of the present edition). Library records show a single complete copy in institutions (Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Weimar).

3 volumes, 16mo (115 x 90mm). Complete with 2 engraved frontispieces, with additional fly-title in vol. II; printed on blue-tinted paper except for titles and frontispieces. Original pink stiff printed wrappers (book-blocks splitting, a few chips to spine, edges worn); original blue combed-paper slipcase (extremities worn).

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