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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Male : Poet, thinker, novelist, dramatist, scientist, etc. Married in 1806
Nationality : German Place of Birth : Frankfurt am Main

Date of Birth : 1749 Date of Death : 1832 Age : 83

Education : Leipzig & Strassburg
Gotz von Berlichingen (1771-3) - a romantic play
The Sorrows of Werter : A German Story
(1774)
(Trans by Richard Graves) (1779 J Dodsley) - 2 vols
(1780 for C Jackson, Dublin)
(Trans by W Render) (1801 London)
(1813 G Hazard, London. 3rd Pratt Ed)
Die Leiden des Jungen Werther
(1911 Doves Press) - 200
(Trans by Bayard Quincy Morgan) (1957 John Calder)

Wilhelm Meister' Apprenticeship
(novel) (1795-1829)
(Trans Thomas Carlyle) (1824 Oliver & Boyd/Whittaker) - 2 vols
(1842 Chapman & Hall. New Ed) - 3 vols
(1959 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by William Sharp
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Herman and Dorothea : A Poem from the German
(1801 Longman & Rees, London)
(1862 David Nutt)
Elective Affinities
(1809. tr 1960)
Memoirs : Written by Himself
(1824 Colburn) - 2 vols
Goethe's Theory of Colours
(1840 Murray)
Egmont : A Tragedy in 5 Acts
(1848 Saunders & Otley)
Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret
(1850 Smith Elder) - 2 vols
The Poems of Geothe, with a Sketch of His Life
(Trans by E A Bowring) (1853 London)
Poems and Ballads
(1859 Delisser & Procter, NY)
The Poems of Goethe : Consisting of His Ballads & Songs
(Trans by W Gibson)
(1883 Simpkin Marshall)
Goethe's Travels in Italy
(1892 G Bell)

20thC
Iphgenie auf Tauris
(in German) (1912 Doves Press) - 200
Torquato Tasso
(in German) (1913 Doves Press) - 200
+ De Luxe Ltd Ed of 12 on vellum
The Story of Reynard the Fox
(1954 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Fritz Eichenberg
Letters from Goethe
(1957 Edinburgh UP)
Italian Journey 1786-1788
(1962 Collins) (1968 NY) - Trans by W H Auden & Elizabeth Mayer
Selected Verse
(Trans by David Luke) (1964 Penguin)
The Autobiography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1971 Sidgwick & Jackson)
- Trans by John Oxenham
Roman Elegies
(Trans by David Luke) (1977 Chatto & Windus)
Tales for Transformation
(1989 Peter Owen) - Trans by Scott Thompson
Maxims and Reflections
(1998 Penguin £7.99) - Trans by Elizabeth Stopp
Selected Poetry
(Trans by David Luke) (1999 Libris £40 & £14.95)

FAUST - PART ONE
Faust : A Drama and Schiller's Song of the Bell
(Trans by Lord F L Gower) (1823 John Murray)
Faust : A Dramatic Poem
(Trans by Abraham Hayward) (1833 Moxon)
Faustus : A Dramatic Mystery
(Trans by John Anster) (1835 Longman Rees)
Faust : A Tragedy
(Trans by Theodore Martin) (1873 Elzevir Press) - plates after A von Krelling
Faust
(Trans A Hayward) (1908 Hutchinson) - Willy Pogany
+ 250 on large paper signed
Offered in 1998 for £350
Faust
(Trans by John Anster) (1925 Harrap) - 2900 signed by Harry Clarke
Signed Edition offered in 1998 for £455
Faust : Part One
(Trans by Philip Wayne) (1949 Penguin)

FAUST - PART TWO
Faust Part II with Other Poems
(Trans by L J Bernays) (1839 london)
Faustus
(Trans by J Anster) (1864 London)
Faust : Part Two
(Trans by Philip Wayne) (1959 Penguin Classic)

FAUST - PARTS ONE & TWO
Faust : A Tragedy in Two Parts
(Trans by Warburton Davies) (1838 Arthur Taylor)
- 2 vols. Ltd Ed 50 sets
Faust
(Trans by J Birch) (1839-43 Black & Armstrong) - 2 vols. J Brain after Moritz Retszech
Faust : A Tragedy
(Trans by Bayard Taylor) (1871 Strahan) - 2 vols
Faust
(Trans by Anna Swanwick) (1879 G Bell) - after Moritz Retszech
Goethe's Faust
(1894 Dodd Mead NY) - F M Gregory
Faust : Eine Tregodie
(1906-10 Doves Press) - 2 vols. Eric Gill. 300 & 250
+ De Luxe Edition of 25 sets
Faust : Parts I & II - An Abridged Version
(Trans by Louis MacNeice) (1951 Faber)

READING
Pietro Citati : Goethe
Peter Eckermann : Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann & Soret
(1850 London) - 2 vols
George Henry Lewes : The Life & Works of Geothe
(1855 London) - 2 vols
Albert Bielschowsky : The Life of Goethe 1749-1832
(1905-8 NY & London) - 3 vols
Joseph McCabe : Goethe - The Man and His Character
(1912 Eveleigh Nash 15/-)
Georg Brandes : Wolfgang Goethe
(1924 NY)
T J Reed : Goethe
(1984 OUP)
Nicholas Boyle : Goethe - The Poet and the Age 1749-90
(1991 Clarendon Press)
J R Williams : The Life of Goethe
(1998 Blackwell)

Related Writers

Thomas Carlyle
Edinburgh
Willy Pogany


See also

In Print 1994 Penguin Classics