{"product_id":"herrmann-und-dorothea","title":"The illustrated Prachtausgabe of Hermann und Dorothea, in a signed Karl Ebert art binding","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHermann und Dorothea. Neue Ausgabe mit vier Kupfern nach Kolbe von Eßlinger.\u003c\/strong\u003e Braunschweig, Friedrich Vieweg, 1822.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustrated royal-8vo \u003cem\u003ePrachtausgabe\u003c\/em\u003e, printed in Antiqua on firm Vélin paper; the \u003cem\u003eNeue Ausgabe\u003c\/em\u003e following the earlier Vieweg text but incorporating corrections (a coloured-plate variant is also recorded). One preliminary leaf and 239 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith four copperplates after Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Younger, engraved by Martin Esslinger: an engraved frontispiece\/title showing Hermann and Dorothea with their children above two Norns, and three further plates in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSigned dark-blue grained-leather \u003cem\u003eKunsteinband\u003c\/em\u003e by Karl Ebert, München (the binder's gilt pallet on the lower turn-in), five raised bands, gilt-ruled panels, single gilt fillet border, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, in a blue-lined slipcase (very good overall; text with light even foxing, binding with minor rubbing and natural patination, slipcase rubbed but functional).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 1822 \u003cem\u003eNeue Ausgabe\u003c\/em\u003e is the illustrated royal-8vo issue recorded by the standard Goethe references.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is a cultivated \u003cem\u003ePrachtausgabe\u003c\/em\u003e whose authority rests as much in its material presentation as in its text, and the plates are central to its ambition. Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Younger, a Berlin historical painter trained under Chodowiecki, supplied the historical-poetic conception; Esslinger, a Swiss engraver active in Zurich, translated it into copperplate, so the formula \u003cem\u003enach Kolbe von Eßlinger\u003c\/em\u003e marks a division of artistic labour rather than a minor production note. The imagery suits the poem, which turns the disruptions of the Revolutionary years into a civic and domestic epic of migration, hospitality and moral formation. Kolbe's classical idiom gives those themes a composed dignity within Vieweg's refined page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKarl Ebert, active in Munich, taught at the \u003cem\u003eKunstgewerbeschule\u003c\/em\u003e and was among the founding members of the \u003cem\u003eMeister der Einbandkunst\u003c\/em\u003e in 1923; his documented collaboration with Frieda Thiersch places him among the Munich artist-binders rather than the trade, and Horst Stobbe's 1919 exhibition catalogue \u003cem\u003eBucheinbände von Karl Ebert\u003c\/em\u003e calls him \"a craft-artist in the best sense of the word.\" His binding here is austere in the best sense, with narrow gilt fillets, a raised-band spine and a discreet signature, concentration rather than display.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePROVENANCE\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEuropean private collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eREFERENCES\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoedeke IV\/3, 335 (2u); Hagen 257; Kippenberg I, 671; Hirzel A 377; for the coloured-plate variant, Kippenberg I, 672; for the textual corrections, cf. Hewett, p. 133. For Ebert, Horst Stobbe, \u003cem\u003eBucheinbände von Karl Ebert\u003c\/em\u003e (Munich, 1919). For the engraver, SIK-ISEA (SIKART), s.v. Martin Esslinger.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46193089839292,"sku":null,"price":1700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/1285\/3436\/files\/Goethe-4.png?v=1778225110","url":"https:\/\/atelierzweig.com\/products\/herrmann-und-dorothea","provider":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}