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Berlin: S. Fischer Berlin: S. Fischer circa 1920 gilt titles to leather covers 213 gilt edged pages with decorative eps and frontispiece portrait of Goethe from the private library of Thomas Braun the well respected Oxford Don, Academic, Linguist and Classicist with his Signature and date to fep.front cover loose with wear but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Hardback. New.

[Hammersmith]: The Doves Press, 1910. Limited Edition. Vellum. Very good +. Paper copies bound in limp vellum, octavo size, first volume 261 pp., one of 300 copies, the second volume 374 pp., one of 250 copies, text in German. Founded in 1900 by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, the parnership dissolved in 1909 with Cobden-Sanderson continuing to print on his own. Justly famous for the purity of design and exactness of printing, it is always a thrill of sheer delight to hold a Doves Press book in one's hands. The two volumes published separately, Volume I in 1906 and Volume II in 1910. Volume I is one of 300 copies printed on paper (there were also 25 printed on vellum); Volume II one of 250 copies on paper (there having also been 22 on vellum). The text taken from the 1887 Weimar edition for the first volume, and for the second volume from the Weimar edition of 1899, "specially revised for this Edition by Dr. Erich Schmidt" (n.b., per the colophon). Note also that the large initials in the… Read More