1880's Rare Victorian Book - GOETHE'S FAUST in two parts illustrated

 

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Author : GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang Von; (Anna Swanwick, translator)
Title : GOETHE'S FAUST in two parts. (Complete in one volume)
Publisher : Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co., no date (circa 1880).
Language : Text in English
Size : 8 " X 5 "
Pages : 424  pages.
Binding : Attractive and Very good full decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright and clean, rare foxing and staining). 
Illustrations : Including a nice frontis portrait and full page illustrations.

The book : Rare and attractive edition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust -- a tragic play in two parts usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus and the greatest work of German literature.

 The author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His works include epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist.