Faustus : from the German of GoetheGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, author1821engBEIN Speck Ck99 R3 +821 Copy 1: 29 cm.BEIN Speck Ck99 R3 +821 Copy 2: 29 cm. Imperfect: P. vii-viii wanting. Autograph: Noel Byron, Pisa, 1822. Ms. note on t.p. below autograph, in a different hand: Presented by him to Mrs. Stith [i.e., Catharine Potter Stith, wife of Townshend Stith]. Slip of publisher's advertisements tipped in preceding p. [v]. P. [2] at end bound following t.p. Some plates bound out of order.SML,Y Hkg8 162 Copy 1: Half-title pp. [i-ii] and frontispiece wanting.SML,Y Hkg8 162 Copy 2: [Plays, v. 191] Half-title pp. [i-ii] wanting.BEIN Zab W6445 +Zz821G: Front board detached. Extra [?] illustrated engraved half-title page. Autograph on half-title page: "C. Wood." Accompanied by: 1) Note in manuscript of A. Tappan Wilder, "From ANW [Amos Niven Wilder]'s study at [with an arrow pointing to the printed address]"; 2) menu from the S.S. 'Europa' transatlantic ocean liner, dated Wednesday, July 13th, 1932, prepared for a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Goethe's birth. From the libraries of: 1) Amos Niven Wilder; 2) A. Tappan Wilder.Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. See the 2007 edition edited by Frederick Burwick and James C. McKusick."The slight analysis drawn up as an accompaniment to Retsch's [!] Outlines being out of print, the publishers felt desirous to supply its place with a more careful abstract ..."With this view the most striking passages and scenes ... have been translated into blank verse, and connected by a detailed description in prose."Published also on large paper with the plates engraved by Moses from Retzch's Outlines.With half-title.Errata on p. [2] at end.