Beschreibung aller Länder, Herrschaften, fürnemsten Stetten, Geschichten
Description:
Imperfect: waterstained, with no loss of text. From the library of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria. Manuscript shelf mark: 3222. Bound in contemporary blindstamped half-pigskin with wooden boards; clasps wanting., Imprint from colophon., Pages 951-962, 1191-1193, erroneously numbered 947-956 and 1153-1154., Printer's mark on verso of last leaf., and Title within woodcut border.
Publisher:
Getruckt zu Basel durch Henrichum Petri,
Subject (Name):
Maximilian,--Duke of Bavaria,--1809-1888--Ownership
An advertisement, laid in, presenting the first Heft and soliciting subscriptions for future Hefte, gives a date in 1826 as closing time for subscriptions. Goethe mentions having seen the second Heft in a letter from the year 1828., Goethe commented on the first and second Hefte in Kunst und Altertum, v. 6., Illustrations to Faust I only., and Wanting plate I.
Publisher:
Hamburger Steindruck, in Commission bey J.M. Commeter,
Subject (Name):
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,--1749-1832.--Faust--Illustrations.
"In einer einmaligen numerierten Auflage von 400 Exemplaren hergestellt. ... Den Nummern 1-100 sind sämtliche Lithos in signierten Drucken auf Japan beigegeben. Bei den Nummern 101-400 ist das Frontispiz und der Druckvermerk handschriftlich gezeichnet. Dieses Exemplar trägt die Nummer [blank]"--Colophon. and BEIN Zg19 H371 +923r: No. 18, with each lithographed plate signed by the artist. In case (as issued?).