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GOETHE (JOHANN WOLFGANG VON) Faust. A Tragedy... Translated by Bayard Taylor, 4 vol., NUMBER 318 OF 650 LARGE PAPER COPIES, New York, 1906; and another edition, illustrated by Harry Clarke

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GOETHE (JOHANN WOLFGANG VON) Faust. A Tragedy... Translated by Bayard Taylor, 4 vol., NUMBER 318 OF 650 LARGE PAPER COPIES, frontispieces each in 2 states (coloured and uncoloured aquatint), plates after Alexander Liezen Mayer, finely bound in original dark blue/black crushed morocco at the Riverside Press, covers with multiple gilt rule borders enclosing elaborate central panels, spines tooled to a similar design and raised bands, t.e.g., others uncut, morocco turn-ins, large 8vo, Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1906; Faust... Translated by John Auster. Illustrated by Harry Clarke, American issue, NUMBER 745 OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, 22 plates (8 colour), illustrations, original pictorial front endpapers bound in, modern black morocco gilt, gilt panelled spine, 4to, New York, Dingwall Rock, [1925] (5)

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