The sorrows and sympathetic attachments of Werter; a German story, by Mr. Goethe, Doctor of the Civil Law. Volume the first[-second]. [Six lines in praise of the author]
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,1749-1832.
Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street,
M,DCC,LXXXIV.
"The second volume .. will be published, ten days from this date .. January 24th, 1784."--p. 40. Vol. 2 (p. [41]-[72]) has separate title page.
Bookseller's advertisements on p. 40 and [72].
Running title: The sorrows of Werter.
The translation, wrongly attributed to Richard Graves, was probably made by Daniel Malthus from the French version of Georges Deyverdun. Cf. Die erste englische Ausgabe des "Werther." Jahrbuch der Sammlung Kippenberg V (1925): p. 13ff.
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Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,