Goethe in England and America; Bibliograhy
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... Faust. Analysis, Translation, Editions, Illustration. Chronologically. I. Soan, George. Extracts from Goethe's Tragedy of Faustus, explanatory of the plates by Retsch sic, intended to illustrate that work, translated by G. S.,--Author of "the Innkeeper's Daughter,"--"Falls of Clyde,"--"The Bohemian" &c. London, J. H. Bohte, 1820. This is the early germ of several subsequent publications. It seems referred to, in Ileinemann's list, 1886 B. German. No. 2, as erroneously: it ought really to be 1, in order of time. And Heinemann adds in his A. English that the book is rare, and that his No. 1 is indeed not in the British Museum, though in the Bodleian. However, it is to be found in the former,--Catalogue 2644; 1--3. G.--in the Large Room, bound together with two other things. This volume, then, contains: a) Umrisse to Goethe's Faust, gezeichnet von Retsch sic, Stuttgart, Cotta, 1816, with text 12 pp. 4. b) Extracts, as above. Only 8 pp., of which one is blank, of very brief explanations, 3 to 7 lines to each of the 26 plates,--corresponding to the lines chosen in the German a). A page of introduction from which gradually the text of the 1821 edition seems evolved. c) A set of outlines, componirt von C. F. Schultze to Fouque's Undine, published at Niirnberg, Campe. Heinemann 1886, B. German says as to his Numbers 1 and 2, that he could not see the "Extracts." It was to him "leider unmoglich, das vorliegende his 2, my 1 mit dem vorhergehendeu Werke zu vergleichen. Beide sind von grosser Seltenheit." But the extracts are, as stated above, in the British Museum, 2644, 2.--Bohte, the publisher, died; the following editions are published by Boosey. Boileau,--vide further on, Br. Mus. T 1485 (13), says that Soans undertook a fuller analysis of...
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