Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

Title:

Faust : tragédie de M. de Goethe / traduite en français par M. Albert Stapfer ; ornée d'un portrait de l'auteur, et de dix-sept dessins composés d'après les principales scènes de l'ouvrage et exécutés sur Pierre par M. Eugène Delacroix.

Alternate Title(s):

Faust. 1. Theil. French

Published / Created:

Paris : Chez Ch. Motte, Éditeur ... et chez Sautelet, libraire ... MDCCCXXVIII [1828]

Paris : Imprimerie de Gaultier-Laguionie, [1828]

Physical Description:

[4], iv, 148 pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42-55 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2013 45 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2013 45 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Engraved title vignette (medallion-portrait of author)

Translation, partly in verse, partly in prose, of Faust, first part.

BAC: British Art Center copy 1 bound in contemporary green quarter morocco and marbled boards, with brown leather corners. First issues of the lithographs, on China paper.

BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is a large paper copy. Bound in red half morocco with marbled boards.

Subject Terms:

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749–1832. Faust -- Illustrations. | Faust, -approximately 1540 -- Drama.

Form/Genre:

Lithographs -- 1828.

Contributors:

Stapfer, Philipp Albert, 1766–1840, translator. | Delacroix, Eugène, 1798–1863, illustrator.