Faust
Subtitle: a tragedy
By: by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; the first[-second] part, tr., in the original metres, by Bayard Taylor.
Contributors: Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878, tr.
Publisher: Fields, Osgood
Published: 1871
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Faust, d. ca. 1540 -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Notes: Title in red and black.
First (American) edition.
Collation: v. 1, xviii, 405 p.; v. 2, xvi, 536 p.
Vol. 2 has imprint: Boston, J. R. Osgood and company.
On verso of t.-p. of v. 1: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1870, by Bayard Taylor, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington; v. 2: Entered ...  in the year 1871 [etc.]
Motto on t.-p. of v. 1: Wer die dichtkunst will verstehen [etc.] 5 lines (incl. "Goethe," at end); on t.-p. of v. 2: Sein ohr vernimmt den einklang der natur ... Und sein gefühl belebt das unbelebte (6 lines incl. "Goethe: Tasso" at end)
Vol. 1 includes "Preface" (with criticism of previous translations, p. [iii]-xiv); "An Goethe," dedicatory poem, p. [xvii]-xviii; "Notes," p. [307]-388; Appendix I, The Faust-legend, p. [391]-396; Appendix II, The chronology of Faust, p. [404]-405.  Vol. 2 includes "Introduction," p. [iii]-xiii, and "Notes," p. [433]-536.