GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON — Das Maerchen

Wien und Hellerau, Im Avalun-Verlag, 1922. Different. 105+(3) pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Good, Hardcover. Bound in leather by hand by P.A. Demeter in Hellerau, near Dresden. Some wear to binding. Top edge of pages gilt. With a beautiful lithograph by Max Slevogt. Printed in a limited edition of 260 copies. This is number 134, one of 135 bound in leather (numbers 1 to 135). First published in 1795 in Das Horen, a publication by Friedrich Schiller. Full of esetoric symbolism. Published during the time of the French revolution, an event Goethe, as a freemason, followed with much interest. Since its first appearance this story has been the subject of much debate regarding its meaning. Rare edition..