MASTER NEGATIVE NO. 91-80035 MICROFILMED 1992 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES/NEW YORK as part of the . r. ■ *» "Foundations of Western Civilization Preservation Project Funded by the ^^^ NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES Reproductions may not be made without permission from Columbia University Library COPYRIGHT STATEMENT The copyright law of the United States - Title 17, United States Code - concerns the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material... niversity Library reserves the right to refuse to accept a copy order if, in its judgement, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of the copyright law. AUTHOR: SCHREIBER, CARL (CARL FREDERICK) TITLE: WILLIAM A. SPECK COLLECTION OF .. PLACE: [NEW HAVEN] DA TE : [1918?] 1 Restrictions on Use: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES PRESERVATION DEPARTMENT BIBLIOGRAPHIC MTrROFQRM TARHFT Master Negative # ^ Orip;inal Material as Filmed - Existing Bibliographic Record * " ■ ! 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I f/ ■f s A r\ Columbia (HnitJers^ttp LIBRARY i COLLECTIONS OF YALE UNIVERSITY Pamphlets descriptive of the important collections of Yale University in Art, Archic- ology, Literature, A^atnral History, etc., are issued from time to time. Number 1, ^"The Collection of Fossil Horses," was by Prof . P. S. Lull. Number 2, "'The Yale Babylonian Collection,'" 7C'as by Prof A. T. Clay. These pamphlets 7i.nll be forwarded to any address on application to the Secretary of Yale University. NUMBER 3 The V/illiam A. Speck Collection of Goethiana By CARL F. SCHREIBER, Ph.D. Fig. I. After the original silhouette. On the reverse of the mount is the inscription, " Le conceillez (sic!) priv6 de Weymar Goethen (sic!). Carlsbad 1786." 11 COLLECTIONS OF YALE UNIVERSITY THE WILLIAM A. SPECK COLLECTION OF GOETlllANA 111 Fig. 2. The first portrait of Goethe published for sale. After an anonymous etching of a drawing by Georg F. Schmoll about 1774. Reduced. The William A. Speck Collection of Goethiana By CARL F. SCHREIBER, Ph.D. Instructor in German Is the moral force that Goethe exerted on Emerson, Lowell, Bayard Taylor and all the leaders of thought in America two generations ago spent ? Has the phe- nomenal rise of a dominant science, luxury, the national spirit, the humanitarian movement and democracy raised an impassable barrier between our generation and him, whom our best traditions "acknowledged as the model for man, as an intellectual being, to strive to imitate?" Mr. Henry Dwight Sedgwick in a recent remarkable essay, ^ Forsaken God* gives answer to these questions with a decided negative. In the distractions of present day life we have wandered far from the Goethean ideal of inward ♦ The Atlantic Monthly, March, 1916. peace. To strive for greater inward peace is most essential to the mental and moral welfare of our; democracy. Accordingly Mr. Sedgwick bids us pause and get our bearings. In spite of the progress of three-quarters of a century "our neglect to follow Goethe's ideal remains our own fault." We mu.'^t profit by the criticisms leveled against the excrescence^' of the democratic spirit "and return to Goethe's ideal. Some steps to be taken are obvious. First of all we must fully satisfy the democratic desires ct the Zeitgeist by making pure democracy prevail in a'! matters of politics and economics. Then when democracy shall have received its due, it must n^ longer seek to lay its hands on literature, art, highc education, pure science, philosophy, manners. And then — when the mass of men are politically and eco- nomically free — we must preserve the sacred fire of intellectual light by setting apart a priesthood, a body of intellectual men who shall worship the God of truth and him alone. Our professors at Harvard, Yale, and elsewhere constitute, or should constitute, such a priesthood." More auspicious omens than these could not be attendant upon the transfer of one of the most remarkable collections of Goethiana from its place of comparative seclusion to the Library of Yale Univer- sity. Three years ago Mr. William A. Speck was [invited by the Corporation to bring his collection from Haverstraw, New York, to deposit it with the Univer- Isity Library and to become its Curator. The prime [motive which led to so ready an acceptance lay in iGoethe's own bidding to the collector: "Die Werke |der Kunst gehoeren nicht Einzelnen, sie gehoeren der rebildeten Menschheit an." Great love for the man Goethe and a leep appreciation of his works were early [awakened in Mr. Speck. This love and [appreciation opened an ever-widening hori- Izon before him to the end that he became filled with the desire to obtain as real a con- ception of Goethe, as living a picture of 'his genius, as possible, through a collection of his works, his pictures, medallions and [(letters, in fact through everything that would bring back to him in spirit the entire Goethe. To learn to know Goethe in all his varied activities, as poet and artist, as man of science and public servant — such was Mr. Speck's desire. Upon this broad foundation the collec- tion was to be laid. But the difficulties which placed themselves in the way of Mr. Speck's collecting soon drove him to set narrower limits for his aspirations. Thou- sands of miles separated him from the fountain-head of his material. As time went on the competition among German I collectors of Goethiana became keener. A new German pride and patriotism asserted itself to keep such treasures for the Father- land. The prices began to be doubled and trebled. Such new problems developed in Mr. Speck a decided inclination to dis- criminate in favor of Faustiana whenever opportunity presented itself of enriching the collection. Thanks to these conditions, which stood in the way of the original plan, "Mr. Speck is able to-day to afford the Goethe scholar not so rich a collection of Goethiana, to be sure, as Mr. Kippenberg — part-owner of the Insel Verlag — but he is in the position to offer a far richer, more complete and valuable material on Faust — a material which probably finds its peers only in the well known Bode-Tille and Frankfurt Goethehaus collections. Within the confines of a private dwelling it was quite impossible to keep careful watch over the growth of the collection. ]\lany valuable beg'nnings were allowed to lie dormant, because from their places of safe-keeping, they could make but fcebie appeals for an enrichment or completion. The present hon^e of the collection has removed this very serious obstacle. The encouragement and faithful support of the library staff has had its quickening effect. Mr. Speck has returned to his first love — his splendidly conceived scheme. With renewed energy he has set to work to fill in the gaps here and there. Day for day he is striving systematically to gather materials relating to every phase of Goethe's life. The splendid leads which he laid down many years ago are receiving their long denied attention and are gradually rounding into completion. Unconsciously Mr. Speck has in his life- work followed the precepts laid down by Goethe him- self : "Zum einzelnen Sammeln gehoert Liebe, Kennt- (^^^^'^r'rz .^^^:r^^^*^ f2'c^^4Ft -r AM V^t. ACHT LM>Z>\AXZ1GSTKN AUGUST I)es Mciisclicii Tage «ind verfloilitca, Die Rchdnsteij Giiler angefoclilcii, IJs li iibl .sii }i «uch der fre^^le Blick ; Du waiulelst eiiisani iiiul \ crdrossen , Der Tag verscliwinUct UHgojiosscn In nbgesoiideilnn licsi'liiiW. Wciij^ Frcuiiilos Anllitz dir bejjpij"''' • S eilloililfn . Dmm Tage goiinct heitcin Blick !. Das Beste schaiTet unverdrii.'scn; WahhvoUen uiwrer Zei^enosNen Das bleibt suleCxt erprobUs UUiok j^^i^ "igtmr^^i^^^ Z^^/^^ ^\ -^ Fig. 3. A birthday poem autographed and inscribed by Goethe. Reduced. IV COLLECTIONS OF YALE UNIVERSITY THE WILLIAM A. SPECK COLLECTION OF GOETIIIANA d& iu 2Jl CCe oe -Ccip j i c p comnciixi c ncpx^mc. \ Gustav Schwab), down to Goethe's Poet- ische iind Prosaische IVerke 1836- 1837 edited by Eckermann and Riemer. It goes without saying that all the more recent editions are available. To begin with the least appreciated and least known activity of the poet, we find that Goethe as a man of science is well represented in the collection. Splendid copies of the first editions of Die Meta- morphose der Pflansen, an inscribed copy of Soret's translation of the same into French, Die Farbenlehre (with the exces- sively rare titlepage, dated 1808 inserted), Zur Naturwissenschaft Ueherhaiipt and Zur Morphologie surrounded by a mass of criticism and commentary, make a fine ex- hibition of the poet in the field of science. The other activities of Goethe are so interlocked and are represented in such varied forms, that it has seemed imprac- ticable to group them. The collection con- tains many rare and unique items. A few of the most interesting of these are : a splendid silhouette of Goethe (Fig. i), dated Karls- bad 1786, which seems to have originated during the days immediately preceding his departure for Italy; an anonymous etching of Goethe after Georg F. SchmoU (Fig. 2), the first portrait of the young poet offered for general sale; an original drawing by Goethe in blue and gray of an Italian land- scape; a pen and ink sketch of a coat of arms also by Goethe; a copy of Hermann \und Dorothea inscribed by the poet to Staatsrat von Koehler on March third, 1819; signed and dated copies of two lOANNIS TRI^ I E M 1 I A B B A T IS S P A N H 1= mends lipillobrum familiarium Iibriduoaddiucr io$ Gcfinanix IVincipcs» I:pikopos,accru dituncprxrtarucsuiros, quorum (Jaulogus lubjcctui ell. CAVTVM EST PVBIl CO EDiCTO CxfarciMaicfUriSjnccjiiisaliLninipumuia* qiuruor innos impninat. HAGANOA- FX OFPrClNA I'cuiBrubichr], « > 1 0. Fig. 17. Title-page ol the first book in which the natiie of Johann Faust, magfician, appears in print. Reduced. Fig. 4. After an original etching by Goethe made while he was a student in Leipzig, 1768. Reduced. nis, und gewisser Mut, den Augenblick zu ergreifen, da denn ohne grosses Vermoegen mit verstaendig- maessigem Aufwand, eine bedeutende Vereinigung manches Schoenen und Guten sich erreichen laesst." It is a far cry from enjoying the collection with Mr. Speck as guide to a dry and hasty enumeration of the many rare and interesting items. At best I can only mention by title a few of the splendid volumes, hint at the existence of fine prints and beautiful pictures and but casually refer to the medals and manuscript material. To Mr. Speck every item is dear ; for him every number breathes a pleasant memory. An arabesque of anecdote and story surrounds each and every item of the collection. Space will not permit to cast even a fleeting glance into the memoirs of a col- lector ; it is our purpose here to show the working equipment and the opportunities for research afforded by this great store of Goethiana. The collection has not been laid down in a hap- hazard manner. It has reached its present flourishing condition through a careful study of the handbooks and bibliographies relating to Goethe. It is not sur- prising then that this department of the collection offers the student a practically complete array of the really valuable works of reference, from the earliest attempts of Peters, Petzholdt, Hirzel, Unfiad, Engel, Appell and Goedeke, to the more recent works of Rollett, Zarncke, Tille, Myer, Schulte-Strathaus and Kippenberg. In passing, let me emphasize, that Hirzel's famous book is present in all four editions ; 1848, 1862, 1874, 1884. Quite wortliy of mention in connection with these, is a collection of many hundreds of antiquarian and auction-sales catalogues containing Goethiana. This branch of the collection is further strengthened by a remarkable sequence of the collected works. The pirated as well as the official printings are on the shelves beginning with Himburg's three volumes of 1777 on through Schmieder 1778, Goeschen 1790, linger 1792- 1800, Gotta 1806- 1808 (each volume bearing on the titlepage the autograph of the poet Some rare first editions of Goethe's works exclusive of Faust. VI COLLECTIONS OF YALE UNIVERSITY THE WILLIAM A. SPECK COLLECTION OF GOETIIIANA vu Fig. 7. Faust. After an original water-color by A. Kretchmer. Reduced. poems, one of which is inscribed to Doris Zelter (Fig. 3) ; the manuscript of the poem, An Friedrich Foerster; the 127 page manuscript of Foerster's Erinneriingen an Goethe and several letters to and by Foerster referring to his association with Goethe ; two original etchings by the young poet, one dedicated to his father, the other to Doctor Hermann of Leipzig (Fig. 4), and a translation of Goethe's Dauer im Wechsel in the hand of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Another very interesting bit of Americana is the ten dollar note issued in Northampton, Pennsylvania, bearing the portraits of Goethe. Klopstock, Herschel and Haydn (Fig. 5). One of the most highly prized of all the gems is the poem in Goethe's own hand. Den Funfzehn engUschen Freunden. This poem of eight verses was written by w^ay of thanks to Thomas Carlyle and his younger brother John, Walter Scott, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Eraser, Lord Leveson-Govver and eight others for a small gold seal which they had ordered made with the motto, Ohne Hast, aber ohne East, for Goetlie's eighty-second birthday. Three state documents respectively signed by Goethe in his capacity of Minister of War, Minister of State and Minister of Education give a ghmpse of his activities as a public servant. If we add to autograph letters of Goethe to Bertuch, Meyer, Boettiger, etc., letters by Schiller and his wife, the Herders, Wieland, Knebel, the Grand Duke Karl August, Klopstock, Kanzler von Mueller, Eckermann, Riemer and many others, we get an interesting vista of the literary Weimar of Goethe's day. While the greater number of auto- graph letters is, of course, of German origin, there are fine specimens of Carlyle, Coleridge, George Henry Lewes, the philosopher Whewell, George Bancroft, Bayard Taylor and others all referring to Goethe or to Faust. Carlyle's autograph is further represented in a unique way. The collec- tion possesses a card of admittance to Carlyle's famous lectures on the history of literature signed in the author's own hand. When this little card is grouped with the three first printings of the^ lec- tures, issued in Bombay, London and New York, the combination forms one of the most pleasing items (Fig. 6). Besides all these there are original drawmgs, water-colors and etchings by Georg Melchior Kraus, Carl Lieber, Lavater and Heinrich Naecke among Goethe's contemporaries, as well as most interest- ing drawings and sketches by Lucas Kranach and Woldemar Friedrich among the more recent Ger- man artists. Special mention should be made in this connection of a series of eighteen, unpublished, highly noteworthy water-colors to Faust by Pro- fessor A. Kretschmer of the University of Leipzig (Figs. 7, 8, 9). The collection of medals and medallions is un- doubtedly the most complete outside of Germany. Numbering about 150 Goethe medals in all, the col- lection includes with few exceptions, all the rare early medallic portraits of the poet and a large number of recent casts and strikes. From Doctor Carl Ruland's great collection comes the fine specimen of the Boltschauser medal of the young Goethe, struck about 1775 (Figs. 10, 11) and the apparently unique carnelian glass intaglio, fashioned after Bovy's celebrated medal of the poet (Fig. 12). From the same source comes also a galvano-plastic reproduction of the celebrated clay medallion made by Johann Peter Melchior in 1775, which really important little work of art now hangs in the Grand Ducal Palace in Tiefurt. This galvano is one of seven which were made on the order of Karl Alexander of Sachsen-Weimar. While it is impossible to give an adequate account of this fascinating section of the Speck collection here, it would be an injustice to leave the subject without re- ferring to the fine specimens of all the jubilee medal > of 1825, as well as perfect examples of the noted medallions by Posch, Schadow, David d'Angers, Fischer, Mueller, Bosselt, Scharflf and Kowarzik. And still it is the rows upon rows of splendid old books that line the walls of the Goethe room in the library, which gives the collection its power to serve * the needs of all those who would delve deep into the < life and spirit of the poet. They represent hundreds ' of most interesting and valuable items. Of excessive rarity is the Positiones Juris, that constituted Goethe's Doctor's Dissertation (Fig. 13). Close seconds in rarity are such items as the long strip of paper bearing the song, IVir kommen axis dem Sonnenland and the Pracht Ausgahe of Das Roemische Carnival with the quaint hand-colored plates. Adding to the latter work an autograph letter of Goethe's to Bertuch, which I relates entirely to the publication of the book, we obtain an item of unqualified uniqueness (Figs. 14, 15). ' Among other items worthy of special note are first I editions, generally uncut and sometimes in the unopened state, of Clavigo, Stella, Egmont, Die Geschwister, Jahrmarktsfest zu Plunder sweilen, Scherz, List und Rache, Tasso, Pandora, the two Meisters, Die Wahlverwandtschaften, Die Propylaen, Ueber Kunst und Altertum, Dichtung und Wahrheit and so on and on in splendid array (Fig. 16). j The popular legend of Reineke Fuchs with its many {Variations is represented by a splendid row of rare land interesting editions. Of these mention should be llmade of: Ander Tyl des Bucks Schimpff und Ernst, 3)rinted in Frankfurt in 1543, which was the first ver- ion in modern high German ; Schopper's Latin version ^^^^^^^"""^^ ■ '^ j^K ^^Htt ^ , "^ ^^^^^hM^ H^M^^^^^^^^^k B ^^ 1 '--■V ' r M^^^^^m f k Fig. 9. Die Hexe. After an original water-color by A. Kretchmer. Reduced. Fig. 8. Mephistopheles (his first appearance). After an original water-color by A. Kretchmer. Reduced. of 1578; Zacharias Dosen's edition of 1660; Joachym Wilden's printing of 1662 ; an immaculate copy in the uncut state of Reineke de Vos mit dem Koker, WuU- fenbuettel 171 1 ; Johann C. Gottsched's edition of 1752 followed by the earliest printings of Goethe's adapta- tion. The English version with its continuations is represented by such titles as ; The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox, The Most Pleasant and Delightful History of Reynard the Fox the Second Part and The Shifts of Reynardine the Son of Reynard the Fox, printed in London 1701, 1681 and 1684 and so on down to William Morris' beautiful book pub- lished by the Kelmscott Press in 1892. We now come to that division of the collection which is composed of Faustiana. That it is quite impossible to give in a few words an adequate idea of such a Buecherei, made up of sixteen or seventeen hundred items, is very evident. I shall be obliged to content myself therefore with a bare enumeration of some of the great rarities and landmarks which make the collection the interesting and valuable thing it is. Beginning w4th that earliest of the Faustsplitter the Ep'istolae Familiaris of Johannis Trithemius (Fig. 17), printed in Hagenau 1536. of which very scarce CO v3i 'i .^rki-r^,l:c.5^ V V \M \ ^ > CO o Pi :? •^ •I Ul OS o o c a v THE WILLIAM A. SPECK COLLECTION OE (lOETIH AXA IX ■s-s .£ -: t ? !r. «>» ^ '^ o 5: *^ — o<) >. ° u .2 (LI M «_i ■ t-i ■•-> 'a 1: tJ a I- a us t-i bc iJ o '^. 6 -d ° ^ O 4* IT- ^J bo o. ■J I ^^^— I ■ ■■ . 11 - ■ - ■ I I — n . — Fig. 12, Intaglio. Apparently unique. Figs, io, ii. Obverse and reverse of Boltschauser's medal of Goethe, struck about 1775. Ibook there is a remarkably perfect copy, tlie collection embraces most of the valuable publications supplying )ur knowledge of Faustus down to recent date. If I lention Johannes Mennel's Locoriim Communium ollectanca 1563, Luther's Colloquia 1567, Johannis iVierus' De Prestigiis Daemonum 1568, the Theatrum ^iabolorum 1569, Ludovicus Lavater's De Spectris 570 and its first translation into German 1670, .ercheimer's Christlich Bedenken 1585, Goedelmann's 'on Zaenhercrn Hexen und Unholden 1592 and >elrio's Disquisitionum Magicarum of 1599, I will lave given some idea of the wealth of the early pub- lications bearing on this subject. By way of complete- Jess I would mention here a rich section consisting of Faust folklore, myth and allied subjects such as; Virgilius, Theophilus, Twardowski, Don Juan, Due Me Luxemburg and Marieken voti Nymwegen. There is, of course, no copy of Spies' Faustbuch excepting in the form of a facsimile and modern reprints, but there is on the other hand a remarkable array of Widmann's book. First of all there is the scarce first edition of 1599, the first edition of Pfitzer's redaction of the work printed in 1674, followed by he Endter reprints of 1681, 1695 and 171 1. Das Faustbuch des Christlich Meyncndcn is represented by only one edition, undated, but printed around 1790. Among the copies of the early English Faust-books in the collection, the most interesting are those of 1680 and 169 1, besides an undated one printed by C. Brown about 1700. The so-called Altes Volksschauspiel voni Doctor Faust is present in practically all the printed versions, not excepting the excessively scarce edition based on Geiselbrecht's manuscript, which w^as issued in Berlin in 1832 in 24 privately printed and numbered copies (Fig. 18). Marlowe's Faustus is representea only by modern editions the most valuable of which is perhaps the rare first issue of Wilhelm Mueller's translation into German, printed in 1818. Will Mountford's Life and Death of Doctor Faustus is represented by such early printings as 1720 and 1735. If all these divisions already mentioned are inter- esting and remarkable, it is nevertheless with special pride that I now turn to the section devoted to Goetlie's Faust. It is quite safe to assert that no such complete line of the early editions and their variants could be got together again. Fig. 5. Note issued by the Northampton Bank in 1836 bearing a portrait of Goethe in lower left-hand corner. Reduced. I (11 t « X COLLECTIONS OF YALE UNIVERSITY p O S I T I O N E S J U i^:L I S (1 L' \ S ^ T s :p :c c :r:- rn -r o INCLYTI JUUECOXS CLTOn t :•! <) i< "^ 1 N I S C N S K N S 'J PRO LICE N T I A «UMMOS IN UlROQUF. ]Lirt'. HONORES f R 1 T K C (' N S K <} L } N D I \ IN ALMA ARCElXTIINEiNSI D//; ri. AUGL'sri mdcclxxi. P U n L IC F D K F F N D F Y ■lOANNES \v'OLFGANG GCJ'l'HE iM UK :, >' - HI A N C O F U 1 T K N-S 1 S. yi iv r7 /; .^ 7 O R A T l . made noteworthy changes in his work, the several editions exhibiting these MR. CARIA UrS LKCTl RKS ^n ti)t fti«ton> of litnatmr. ■*'r 17, KDWAIU'N STItKET, r.)UT\UN s^l.vlU; M(»rn*T M..M.1V I K.I4V — II. - II 1> Inn'.* ■ -' -i:'. ^at.t I ,^. - II /,«,/i L- (• ( flurr a ' '.•• ^ : "•"'*" '.» /y( 7. xl '. -X-^ I -J' Fig. 6. An original card of admission signed and numbered by Thomas Carlyle. Reduced. THE WILLIAM A. SPECK COLLECTION OF GOETHIANA XI •#• '^'^--^-^'^-^-^'^illf-- •ttr- m :^v^ ±K. 'H±y- .^' doctor 5»uift/ cOcv: ^.M* cv c\vo\;c X icgronu;nn)h in fv.nf ?luf5uf{cn. Berlin, g rt n 3 n c II get) v u ct' t. A^y^ X "^ 'A'n. e A . ..t W '^# ■ @ ^ @ »%K« H:iJ^-:>J|K>#«@'- m • Fig. 18. Title-page of the first privately printed version of the Puppet- Play. One of twenty-four copies issued. Slightly enlarged. Fig. 20. German editions of Goethe's Faust printed during the poet's lifetime. \n COLLECTIONS OF YALE UNIVERSITY •t- 1! it »l cliaiiges have been studiously added. In the case of Bayard Taylor's work for instance, Mr.' Speck has striven to run down even the mere Titel Aus- '^abcn, oftentimes exhibiting there- fore simply a change of imprint. Other Faust items of interest from among the manuscript material are the complete manuscript of Birch's translation of Faust, sections of the manuscripts of Bayard Taylor's and Frank Claudy's translations and ten pages of a fragmentary rendition of Faust into English by George Henry Borrow. That the collection contains hun- dreds of Faust commentaries and re- views goes without saying, but it is surely more uncommon to find an almost perfect row of Faust works by other authors. Thus Klinger's Faiists Lehen, Tliatcn tuid Hoellcn- faJirt forms a fine series, which in- cludes the St. Petersburg editions of 1 791 and T794, the Karlsruhe print of 1792, the first French translation pub- lished in Amsterdam in 1798, the Stockholm version in 1801, an un- opened copy of George Borrow's translation into English issued anony- mously in London in 1825 and several other editions in German and English. But few of the Faust versions by other hands than Goethe's have eluded Mr. Speck's vigilant pursuit, and it is therefore impossible to record them all here. In passing I cannot refrain from mentioning such rare volumes as Schinck's Johann Faust, cine Dra- matlsche PJiantasie, Wolfram's Faust, cm Dramatischcs GcdicJit, the anony- mous Dcr Travcstierte Doktor Faust and ii\inde dcr Zeit If we add to this array of books and manuscripts a noteworthy collec- tion of music to Faust and other works of the poet as well as a valu- able display of theatre programs and librettos of Faust productions, we be- gin to realize with what completeness the history of Doctor Faustus, the legends about this old conjurer, the Harro Harring's Faust hn Gc- FiG. 19. Title-page of the first edition of Goethe's Faust, Ein Fragment A remarkable copy in the inicut state. ^ ^ ^_ J , ...„ cabalistic and before Goethe, by Goethe and his contemporaries a mystical literature, the whole treatment of the Faust well as by his successors to the present day, has beei. theme in drama and in story, in picture and in song, preserved for us in an almost unbroken Hne. 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