The Mother of Goethe

HARDBACK ?DE-LUXE EDITION,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1911* Publisher: The Bodley Head.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title with decoration to both spine & face both within white frames. Very slightly bumped to lower corners, minor rubs to edges and corners, spine slightly faded. Has strap mark to spine and back board. Just about GOOD.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: This was latterly an EX-LIBRARY copy with a single label inside rear cover. There is also an interesting bookplate to the front paste-down ?Ex Libris C.J.Peacock,? Rather dusty & aged with light reading wear. Top edge gilt, lower and fore edge rough cut. Some age marks to margins, slight offsetting to end-papers & some marks to fep. Slightly shaken but not loose, otherwise GOOD.* Illustrations: Photograure of Elizabeth Goethe to frontis (protected), a number (17) b/w photos and prints throughout.* Pages: 303 pp. text. 23 pp. index, advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Description: Frau Aja?s claim on the interest of the British Public lies. First and mainly in her relationship to her great son; having established this claim she will be liked for her own hearty sake. The author of this sketch has borrowed largely and often literally from Goethe?s Wahrheit und Dichtung together with a number of other seminal german works on the subject. It is universally allowed that the subtle beauty of Goethe?s poetry eludes translation, being dependent for its rare charm so greatly on grace of form, it is a jewel torn from a fine setting when presented in a foreign language.* A GOOD useful copy of the 1st. thus with considerable age and wear. No dust jacket.*