[Rarebooks] FS: Coleridge's First English Translation of Goethe's FAUSTUS, 1821, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $5000 NET

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor). FAUSTUS: FROM 
THE GERMAN OF GOETHE. London: Boosey Sons/Rodwell & Martin, 1821. First 
Edition. Thin octavo (5-3/4" x 9-1/8") bound in contemporary blue boards 
with a tan cloth spine and corners, recently rebacked with a new 
sympathetic cloth spine; viii, 86, (2) pages including the half title, a 
frontispiece engraved portrait of Goethe, and the list of plates by 
Retsch with the errata printed on the verso. The First Edition of the 
FIRST COMPLETE ENGLISH TRANSLATION of the first part of Goethe's Tragedy 
of Faust. The anonymous translation was originally credited to George 
Soane, but literary scholarship revealed in 2007 that Samuel Taylor 
Coleridge, the poet of tormented guilt and of the demonic and the 
supernatural, was the actual translator. There are several editions of 
this book; the one with the accompanying plates was issued after this 
edition without plates. All editions are quite scarce, especially this 
one and especially when complete. Light to moderate foxing. Near Fine 
and quite scarce.

Coleridge claimed that he "had never put pen to paper as a translator of 
Faust," but in an 1820 letter Goethe stated that Coleridge was well 
underway with this translation. (#013785)     $9,000.00

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