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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832, editor). Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert. Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1805.
First edition of a collection of essays edited by Goethe. The subject of the collection is Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), a German writer on Greek and Roman classicism. It contains letters by Winckelmann, essays by H.H. Meyer and C. L. Fernow, and three contributions on Winckelmann by Goethe, Meyer and F.A. Wolf. Hagen 295.
Octavo (198 x 118mm). (Small marginal repairs in three leaves.) Contemporary brown half paper over marbled boards, leather lettering piece gilt (joints and extremities rubbed). Provenance: Carl v. Plüskow, Gotha (inscriptions, one dated 1807) – ‘Prof. Meyer‘ (inscriptions) – Gertrud Eisenmann-Riel (bookplate).
First edition of a collection of essays edited by Goethe. The subject of the collection is Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), a German writer on Greek and Roman classicism. It contains letters by Winckelmann, essays by H.H. Meyer and C. L. Fernow, and three contributions on Winckelmann by Goethe, Meyer and F.A. Wolf. Hagen 295.
Octavo (198 x 118mm). (Small marginal repairs in three leaves.) Contemporary brown half paper over marbled boards, leather lettering piece gilt (joints and extremities rubbed). Provenance: Carl v. Plüskow, Gotha (inscriptions, one dated 1807) – ‘Prof. Meyer‘ (inscriptions) – Gertrud Eisenmann-Riel (bookplate).
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