Faust. Tragédie de M. de Goethe, traduite en francais par M. Albert Stapfer, ornée ... par M. Eugène Delacroix
Delacroix, Eugène. Goethe, J. W. von
Paris. Ch. Motte & Sautelet. 1828
A large paper copy of the first edition of Delacroix’s masterful interpretation of ‘Faust’, a pioneering meeting of word and image and a monument of nineteenth-century illustration.
All of the plates, printed on chine and mounted to larger sheets, conform to first or first published state with the address of ‘Ch. Motte’. The wrapper is present in two states, one of the front cover on white paper and the other, including both the front and rear covers and the backstrip, on blue paper.
One of the monuments of nineteenth-century illustration.
'Ouvrage remarquable et typique de l'époque romantique, illustration magistrale du grand Delacroix, qui est heureusement de plus en plus estimé des bibliophiles de gout.' (Carteret).
All of the plates, printed on chine and mounted to larger sheets, conform to first or first published state with the address of ‘Ch. Motte’. The wrapper is present in two states, one of the front cover on white paper and the other, including both the front and rear covers and the backstrip, on blue paper.
One of the monuments of nineteenth-century illustration.
'Ouvrage remarquable et typique de l'époque romantique, illustration magistrale du grand Delacroix, qui est heureusement de plus en plus estimé des bibliophiles de gout.' (Carteret).
pp. iv, 148. Folio. Frontispiece portrait of Goethe, half-title, additional lithograph wrapper by Devéria, title and 17 lithographs by Delacroix. Black morocco-backed marbled boards and endpapers, gilt spine, original printed wrappers by Devéria bound in.
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