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[GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von]. Das Römische Carneval. Weimar & Gotha: Carl Wilhelm Ettinger, 1789.
4° (237 x 200mm). Title with engraved vignette by H.Lips, errata leaf. 20 HAND-COLOURED ETCHED COSTUME PLATES by or after Georg Schütz and Melchior Kraus. (Plate XII with number shaved with partial loss). Contemporary half sheep, the flat spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (neat repairs to head and foot of spine).
FIRST EDITION, with fine and delicate plates of costumes at carnival time. Hagen 193; Lipperheide Sn 15.
4° (237 x 200mm). Title with engraved vignette by H.Lips, errata leaf. 20 HAND-COLOURED ETCHED COSTUME PLATES by or after Georg Schütz and Melchior Kraus. (Plate XII with number shaved with partial loss). Contemporary half sheep, the flat spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (neat repairs to head and foot of spine).
FIRST EDITION, with fine and delicate plates of costumes at carnival time. Hagen 193; Lipperheide Sn 15.