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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Reineke Fuchs. Stuttgart und Tüblingen: 1846. 2° (330 x 272mm). Numerous engraved plates by Rudolf Rahn and Adrian Schleich after Wilhelm von Kaulbach, metalcut ornament, printed on large paper, text within faint double-rule border. (Some spotting, a few pages loose.) Publisher's red calf, upper cover and spine elaborately blocked in gilt, lower cover blocked in gilt and blind, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, a few small chips to edges); and a collection of sets of literature including Byron (7), Goethe (37), Schiller (2, 9, and 5), Bürger (3), Caspari (2), Von Bucher (2), Pyrker (3), Schubart (2), and others works including Körners, Rückert, a set of Deutscher Classiker (14), and 5 others of similar interest, the majority octavo or duodecimo, 18th and 19th century, leather bound or contemporary boards. (92)