Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 233129 — West-oestlicher Divan
Cottaischen Buchhandlung, 1819, 1e druk, Contemporary blue paper-covered boards with gilt borders, black leather spine with gilt decoration and paper lettering-piece, First edition, with the corrected cancel leaves on pp. 7–10, including the corrected heading ‘Talismane’ on p. 9. Goethe’s celebrated late poetic cycle, inspired above all by Hafiz and Persian poetry, and conceived as a literary dialogue between East and West. The work also contains poems by Marianne von Willemer, whose authorship was not publicly revealed until 1869. Goedeke IV/3, 492, 110; Hagen 416; Kippenberg I, 399–401; Fischer (Cotta) II, 1189., Goed