CS.1420.06
[Bound volume of steel-engraved plates from an unidentified edition of the works of Goethe].
[Stuttgart?] : [s.l.], [18--]
[40] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 19 cm.
The first plate is identified as "Goethe Titelblatt zum 1ten Band der Taschenausgabe in 40. Bänden." The edition has not been identified.
Place of publication inferred from printer statement of J. Niederbühl, Stuttgart on majority of plates; some plates signed "Felsing impr."
Steel-engravings after W. Kaulbach and others.
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
19th century inscription inside front board of R. H. W. Ingram.
20th century pebblegrained black cloth boards; spine lettered in gilt "G. W."
Plates interleaved with tissue guards.
Previous Eton shelfmark: Gm.8.
Kaulbach, Wilhelm von, 1804 - 1874 illustrator.
Niederbühl, Joseph, 1809 - 1893 printer.
Felsing, Jakob, 1802 - 1883 printer.
Ingram, Robert Hugh Wilson former owner.
Germany Stuttgart.
ger
B53272