{"product_id":"the-doves-press-faust-both-parts-among-only-twenty-five-sets-on-vellum","title":"The Doves Press Faust, both parts among only twenty-five sets on vellum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaust. Eine Tragödie.\u003c\/strong\u003e Parts I and II. London, Doves Press, 1906 (Part I) and 1910 (Part II).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo volumes, printed in black and red. Part I (1906), one of 25 copies on vellum (with 300 on paper). Part II (1910), one of 25 copies on vellum (with 250 on paper). The vellum printing is the deluxe edition of both parts. Small quarto (235 × 165 mm).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal flexible vellum bindings signed by the Doves Bindery (near-pristine; apart from minimal flecking to the head- and fore-edges, an otherwise immaculate copy).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis vellum set is the Doves Press answer to \u003cem\u003eFaust\u003c\/em\u003e as world monument.\u003c\/strong\u003e By the time Cobden-Sanderson printed it, the press had already placed Dante, Milton and the English Bible within its canon; this \u003cem\u003eFaust\u003c\/em\u003e is, beside the Bible, among the principal achievements of the Doves Press, and to add Goethe was to make a world-literary claim of the first order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFaust\u003c\/em\u003e is Goethe's most restless work, by turns fragment, tragedy, wager, metaphysics, love story, satire, classical vision and redemption drama, and the Doves Press translates that restlessness into an aesthetic monument with black-and-red typography and spacious proportion.\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\u003eTIDCOMBE DP10 \u0026amp; 20; Marianne Tidcombe, \u003cem\u003eThe Doves Press\u003c\/em\u003e (British Library, 2002); Tomkinson, \u003cem\u003eA Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses\u003c\/em\u003e; Colin Franklin, \u003cem\u003eThe Private Presses\u003c\/em\u003e; University of Missouri Special Collections, \u003cem\u003eDoves Press\u003c\/em\u003e exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTidcombe DP10 (Part I, 1906; 300 on paper, 25 on vellum) and DP20 (Part II, 1910; 250 on paper, 25 on vellum); Tomkinson 10 and 20.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012969775292,"sku":null,"price":48300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/1285\/3436\/files\/Faust-T1_Doves-Press_Perg-1.jpg?v=1782797336","url":"https:\/\/atelierzweig.com\/products\/the-doves-press-faust-both-parts-among-only-twenty-five-sets-on-vellum","provider":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}