Goethe, Faust: A Tragedy, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Undated, Very Good hardcover.

von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Undated. 

English, Very Good, HC, 12mo, 7 3/8" x 5 1/4", 455 pp.

Hardcover in brown marbled paper over leather backing with stamped gilt decoration and dentelles. Some wear to edges, spine, and front and back panels, small black mark to spine, some toning, foxing to first 2 pages, light interior soiling, water marks to top of illustration pages, not affecting image, some separation to front & back gutters and title page, and laid-in unrelated newspaper clipping to pages 308 to 309 caused notable toning, an inscription to a blank front page, otherwise, still firmly bound and clean. 455 pp. Includes a black-and-white frontispiece. Tragic two-part play by highly influential German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, containing notes for Part I and annotations for Part II by F.H. Hedge and the translation of Part II and Metrical Version by Miss (Anna) Swanwick. Beautifully produced edition of the work widely accepted as Goethe's magnum opus.