Oct 11, 2012 - Sale 2289

Sale 2289 - Lot 116

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(DOVES PRESS.) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust. I and II (Erster und Zweiter Theilen). 2 volumes. Printed in black and red; initial letters in Volume II designed by Edward Johnston and engraved by Eric Gill. 4to, publisher's vellum with gilt-lettered spines, natural discoloration with pores visible and a few blond spots on Volume II; occasional and very light foxing, some light soiling to endpapers of Volume II; owner's inscription on front blank of Volume I (discreet, in German, 60 years to the date of this auction.) Printed by T. J. Cobden Sanderson and Emery Walker. one of 300 and 250 unnumbered volumes, respectively. Tomkinson 55. (Hammersmith, 1906-10)