{"product_id":"die-leiden-des-jungen-werthers-erster-und-zweiter-theil-1","title":"Die Leiden des jungen Werthers. Erster und zweiter Theil","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDie Leiden des jungen Werthers. Erster und zweiter Theil.\u003c\/strong\u003e Leipzig, Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, 1774.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecond printing of the first edition, issued in the same year, two parts in one volume. It is the \u003cem\u003eDoppeldruck\u003c\/em\u003e of the first edition recorded by Hagen, which corrects all the printing errors listed in the first printing and, in place of the errata notice on the final page, carries a woodcut of a scythe with a winged hourglass. Small octavo (160 × 93 mm).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary blond calf, the spine richly gilt with floral tooling (front joint slightly cracked; otherwise a very good copy).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e❦\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor the history of the novel and the significance of the 1774 first edition, see our listing of the first printing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy belongs to that first year of reception, before \u003cem\u003eWerther\u003c\/em\u003e had become a classic, a school text, or a monument of German literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was still a contemporary work moving rapidly through the hands of readers eager to encounter the book everyone was discussing, and the contemporary blond calf gives it a distinctly eighteenth-century presence, an object rooted in the year of publication and the reception that immediately followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePROVENANCE\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Heribert Tenschert Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eREFERENCES\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHagen 80 (the D1a \u003cem\u003eDoppeldruck\u003c\/em\u003e); Goedeke IV\/3, 163; Kippenberg I, 3039; Hirzel A 60; Speck 794.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJ. P. Eckermann, \u003cem\u003eGespräche mit Goethe\u003c\/em\u003e; M. Swales, \u003cem\u003eGoethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge, 1987); T. J. Reed, \u003cem\u003eThe Classical Centre\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 1980).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46940140077244,"sku":null,"price":12000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/1285\/3436\/files\/Werther_1774_Ganzleder-1.png?v=1781133371","url":"https:\/\/atelierzweig.com\/products\/die-leiden-des-jungen-werthers-erster-und-zweiter-theil-1","provider":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}