The Poems of Goethe, Belford, Clarkes, & Co., 1874, Second Edition, HC, VG.

Bowring, Edgar Alfred. Chicago, Belford, Clarks, & Co.,1874.

English, Second Edition, Very Good, HC, 12mo, 7 1/2" x 5 1/2", 412 pp.

Green cloth over board, featuring black stamped floral and mythological illustrations to front and spine, gilt and black stamped lettering to front and spine, gilded edges, minor wear to edges and tips, crease to top front tip, some soiling to back, Ex Libris note pasted to front pastedown, otherwise, clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. [iv] xvi-18, 412 pp., replete with black illustrations, black floral illustrations to endpapers, Translator's Original Dedication by Edgar A. Bowring, Original Preface, Preface To The Second Edition by EAB, List of the Principal Works of Goethe, Author's Dedication, Songs, Familiar Songs, Ballads, Cantatas, Odes, Miscellaneous Poems, Sonnets, Epigrams, Parables, Art, God, Soul, and World, Religion and Church, Antiques, Elegies, West-Eastern Divan, and Songs From Various Plays, etc. Beautifully produced collection of the influential German writer, Johann von Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832), translated in the Original Metres by British translator and author, Edgar Alfred Bowring (1826-1911).