Goethe's schriften.
By: Leipzig, Bey George Joachim Göschen, 1787-90.
Publisher: Lichtdruck
Published: 1968
Place of publication: [Dielsdorf
Language: ger
Notes: Title vignettes.

First authorized edition of Goethe's works. Vol. 8 in the present set belongs to the issue of 1790, in which v. 1-5 and 8 were published with new title-pages; the earlier issue of that volume is dated 1789. Vol. 3 lacks the head and tail pieces engraved by Lips, on p. 3 and 136, and the typographical error "knüften" on p. 4, line 5 from below, has been corrected so that it apparently is a part of the later issue with the original t.-p. retained. Vol. 4 contains the announcement of the "Schriften", signed "Von Goethe". Chodowiecki's plates, rejected by Göschen because of their inferiority, have not been retained in the present set (one plate in v. 1, 2 and 4 respectively) cf. Hirzel; Bibliothek, Otto Deneke, Die deutsche literatur in XVIII. und XIX. jahrhundert (Sale's catalog, 1909)

Vol. 7 has the repetition on p. 145 of the last three lines on p. 144 and other typographical errors, corresponding in that respect, to Seuffert's issue Aa and Deneke's S¹. Cf. Seuffert's introd. to his reprint, and Deneke in Zs. f. bücher fr. N.F., I, 1909, p. 171-173.