{"product_id":"ein-fragment-achte-ausgabe","title":"The first separate edition of Faust: Ein Fragment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaust. Ein Fragment. Ächte Ausgabe.\u003c\/strong\u003e Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTitle-page and 168 pp. Small octavo (155 × 88 mm). Wine-red morocco signed by G. Jebsen, Hamburg, c. 1900, with triple gilt fillet frames to the covers, a richly gilt floral spine, green morocco doublures and lavish gilt dentelle tooling (a pristine copy, text and binding alike exceptionally fresh).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first \u003cem\u003eFaust\u003c\/em\u003e to reach the public.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe genuine separate issue (Hagen's \"\u003cem\u003eÄchte\u003c\/em\u003e Ausgabe\"), the original and scarcer D° state, distinguished by the repetition of the last three lines of p. 144, the passage beginning \u003cem\u003e\"Der ganz allein,\"\u003c\/em\u003e at the head of p. 145. Title-page and 168 pp. Without engraving, and lacking the sheet-signature \"\u003cem\u003eGoethe's W. 1.–8. B.\u003c\/em\u003e\" found on the copies later made up from \u003cem\u003eSchriften\u003c\/em\u003e sheets. The edition appeared in April 1790 in some 4,000 copies, of which 3,000 formed Volume 7 of Goethe's \u003cem\u003eSchriften\u003c\/em\u003e and 1,000 were issued separately; the present copy is one of the 1,000 \u003cem\u003eEinzeldrucke\u003c\/em\u003e [Sutherland, \u003cem\u003eBodleian Library Record\u003c\/em\u003e IX\/1].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first \u003cem\u003eFaust\u003c\/em\u003e to reach the public, the work that would occupy Goethe from youth to old age. The title is exact. \u003cem\u003eFaust\u003c\/em\u003e enters print not as a finished tragedy but as \u003cem\u003eEin Fragment\u003c\/em\u003e, a public form of incompletion. The \u003cem\u003eFragment\u003c\/em\u003e preserves the work as it stood before the Dedication, the two prologues, the fully articulated pact and wager, the Walpurgisnacht and the dungeon scene were added to give the 1808 \u003cem\u003eFaust I\u003c\/em\u003e its architecture [Henning, \u003cem\u003eFaust-Variationen\u003c\/em\u003e, the scene-by-scene comparison; Seuffert 1882]. The 1790 \u003cem\u003eFragment\u003c\/em\u003e is therefore not merely an earlier state superseded by the 1808 \u003cem\u003eFaust I\u003c\/em\u003e, but the form to which the history of the work must return. Goethe later told Schiller he had resolved to reopen his \u003cem\u003eFaust\u003c\/em\u003e, to dissolve what had already been printed and arrange the material anew [Goethe to Schiller, 22 June 1797]. This \u003cem\u003eFragment\u003c\/em\u003e is the printed body he had to reopen to make the modern \u003cem\u003eFaust\u003c\/em\u003e possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGustav Jebsen of Hamburg bound this copy in wine-red morocco with green doublures and lavish dentelle work; Helma Schaefer characterizes the Hamburg binding culture Jebsen represents as one of \"complete passion and precision,\" devoted to objects \"beautiful, valuable, and lasting\" [Schaefer, \u003cem\u003eEinbandforschung\u003c\/em\u003e 33 (2013)]. The copy thus unites the earliest printed \u003cem\u003eFaust\u003c\/em\u003e with a later collector's care.\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\u003eGoedeke IV\/3, 611, 2; Hagen 204; Meyer 362; Kippenberg I, 2377; Hirzel A 165\/66; Brieger 670; Wilpert\/Gühring 42.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBernhard Seuffert, \u003cem\u003eFaust. Ein Fragment\u003c\/em\u003e (1882); Goethe to Schiller, 22 June 1797; Helma Schaefer, \"Ein Dedikationsband für Hamburg,\" \u003cem\u003eEinbandforschung\u003c\/em\u003e 33 (September 2013), pp. 4–6; Rohde, Valk \u0026amp; Mayer (eds.), \u003cem\u003eFaust-Handbuch\u003c\/em\u003e (Metzler, 2018); Hans Henning, \u003cem\u003eFaust-Variationen. Beiträge zur Editionsgeschichte\u003c\/em\u003e; D. M. Sutherland, \"Early Editions of Goethe, Schiller, and Wagner,\" \u003cem\u003eBodleian Library Record\u003c\/em\u003e IX\/1.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46929240359100,"sku":null,"price":45000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/1285\/3436\/files\/Faust_Fragment_Maroquin-1.png?v=1781052412","url":"https:\/\/atelierzweig.com\/products\/ein-fragment-achte-ausgabe","provider":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}