B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S S U M M E R 2 0 2 3 19 FINE LARGE QUARTO SET OF THE WORKS OF GOETHE, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED 19. GOETHE. Goethe's Works. Illustrated by the Best German Artists. Philadelphia: George Barrie, (1885). Five volumes. Tall quarto, contemporary full brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers, raised bands, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. $4200 Richly illustrated large quarto edition of Goethe’s works, with 66 mounted steel-engravings, 128 full-page woodengravings and hundreds of in-text vignettes. The principal illustrator of this elegant edition was August Friedrich Pecht, German painter, printmaker and critic. Pecht !rst apprenticed with lithographer Franz Hanfstaengl, but after studying several years in Paris, he learned to paint mainly genre scenes depicted in a naturalistic style. During the 1850s, however, he turned to literary and historical subjects, including these renditions for Goethe's works. This edition also includes Hjalmar Boyesen's Life of Goethe. A splendid production in !ne condition, superbly bound and illustrated.
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