{"product_id":"the-third-druck-fur-die-hundert-of-the-west-ostlicher-divan-in-a-signed-sonntag-vellum","title":"The third Druck für die Hundert of the West-östlicher Divan, in a signed Sonntag vellum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWest-östlicher Divan.\u003c\/strong\u003e Munich, Hans von Weber, 1910.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of 100 copies of the third \u003cem\u003eDruck für die Hundert\u003c\/em\u003e, printed on uncut handmade paper; copy no. 87, printed for Richard Laukhuff. Chancery folio (278 × 187 mm).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal vellum binding with gilt fillets and title to cover, signed Carl Sonntag Jr., Leipzig (immaculate; uncut handmade paper).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGoethe's \u003cem\u003eWest-östlicher Divan\u003c\/em\u003e is the most concrete poetic embodiment of his idea of \u003cem\u003eWeltliteratur\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e To Eckermann in 1827 he declared that the epoch of world literature was at hand [Eckermann, 31 January 1827]; in the \u003cem\u003eDivan\u003c\/em\u003e itself he wrote that Orient and Occident were no longer to be separated. The book grew from his encounter with Hafiz through Hammer-Purgstall and turned German poetry outward toward Persian and Islamic lyric. This Hans von Weber edition gives that idea a refined bibliophile form, from the Munich luxury-publishing culture that made canonical texts into ceremonial objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCopy no. 87 was printed for Richard Laukhuff in Cleveland, whose bookstore became a conduit for modern and avant-garde European literature in the American Midwest. A Munich luxury \u003cem\u003eDivan\u003c\/em\u003e printed for Laukhuff makes Goethe's \u003cem\u003eWeltliteratur\u003c\/em\u003e idea material, East and West relayed through Weimar, Munich and Cleveland, held together by the subscription, the binding and the named copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePROVENANCE\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Laukhuff, Cleveland bookseller; copy no. 87 printed for him by name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Heribert Tenschert Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eREFERENCES\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHans von Weber, \u003cem\u003eDrucke für die Hundert\u003c\/em\u003e; Julius Rodenberg, \u003cem\u003eDeutsche Pressen\u003c\/em\u003e (Zürich, 1925); Eckermann, \u003cem\u003eGespräche mit Goethe\u003c\/em\u003e, 31 January 1827; Goethe, \u003cem\u003eWest-östlicher Divan\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eMoganni Nameh\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eGingo Biloba\u003c\/em\u003e); Hendrik Birus (ed.), \u003cem\u003eWest-östlicher Divan\u003c\/em\u003e (Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1994).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012985569468,"sku":null,"price":6500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/1285\/3436\/files\/West-Oestlicher-Divan_1910-1.jpg?v=1782798324","url":"https:\/\/atelierzweig.com\/products\/the-third-druck-fur-die-hundert-of-the-west-ostlicher-divan-in-a-signed-sonntag-vellum","provider":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}