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GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Reineke Fuchs. Illustrated by Wilhelm von Kaulbach with engraved frontispiece, added engraved title and 35 plates. Folio, publisher's green cloth pictorially stamped in gold and black, spine & hinges rubbed, a few scuffs, but bright; all edges gilt; intermittent foxing throughout, heaviest to margins; slipcase. Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta, [1846]
first illustrated edition, first issue with the plate after page 42 depicting fox diving under a monk's habit, later suppressed. Fine steel-engraved plates of anthropomorphic animals by von Kaulbach illustrating Goethe's version of the the 13th century allegory known in English literature as "Reynard the Fox."
