Faust: A Tragedy
Title
Faust: A Tragedy
Creator
Goethe, book's author
Publisher
New York: Hurst & Co.
Date
1888
Contributor
Madison Theodore researched and wrote the event description in 2018.
Description
For a description of the book, please click on the image of the event label/description or scroll to the bottom of the page for the section entitled "Text" for a transcription of the attached document.
Subject
Literature / Poetry
Identifier
SPECIAL PT2026 .F2 H34 1882
Language
English, book's contents
English, event description
English, event description
Relation
To see this book on November 15, 2018 in the "Event Photographs" Collection, please go here [Photograph of Books] 05451, here [Photograph of Books] 05457, and here [Photograph of Books] IMG_0602.
Text
Transcription of event description:
FAUST: A TRAGEDY | GOETHE | NEW YORK: HURST & CO. | 1888
This book has padded leather covers that are tan and brown in color that has a leaf design in the lighter color. This pattern and treatment to the leather cannot be found in any available reference book, but most closely resembles mauchline ware, which are wood covers that are acid treated with impressed leaf designs. The front cover features a gilt stamped title and a small floral design. The back has no additional adornment, but the spine has the title stamped in gilt. The edges are gilt, yet they appear more copper than gold because the edges were first painted red and then gold leaf, so that the red would show through. The endpapers are a black and white floral print over which flowers, vines, and leaves have been painted in silver. To make the silver more visible, tilt the book back and forth. The frontispiece is a color plate lithograph of a man holding a scythe and standing in front of a house. There is tape along the spine to hold it together, and the interior binding is partially broken.
Faust: A Tragedy is one of 3,000 volumes donated by Mrs. Marifrances Engelhardt after Hurricane Matthew (2016) flooded her home. About 240 books are in Special Collections. During WWII she served in Spain in the diplomatic corps and married a well-known foreign correspondent, through whom she met Ernest Hemingway and Orson Wells. Sometime after her second marriage she settled in St. Augustine. When shown a book from her collection, despite her advanced years, she remembered who in her family owned it or gave it to her, and whether or not she enjoyed reading it. Mrs. Engelhardt died on April 18, 2017.
FAUST: A TRAGEDY | GOETHE | NEW YORK: HURST & CO. | 1888
This book has padded leather covers that are tan and brown in color that has a leaf design in the lighter color. This pattern and treatment to the leather cannot be found in any available reference book, but most closely resembles mauchline ware, which are wood covers that are acid treated with impressed leaf designs. The front cover features a gilt stamped title and a small floral design. The back has no additional adornment, but the spine has the title stamped in gilt. The edges are gilt, yet they appear more copper than gold because the edges were first painted red and then gold leaf, so that the red would show through. The endpapers are a black and white floral print over which flowers, vines, and leaves have been painted in silver. To make the silver more visible, tilt the book back and forth. The frontispiece is a color plate lithograph of a man holding a scythe and standing in front of a house. There is tape along the spine to hold it together, and the interior binding is partially broken.
Faust: A Tragedy is one of 3,000 volumes donated by Mrs. Marifrances Engelhardt after Hurricane Matthew (2016) flooded her home. About 240 books are in Special Collections. During WWII she served in Spain in the diplomatic corps and married a well-known foreign correspondent, through whom she met Ernest Hemingway and Orson Wells. Sometime after her second marriage she settled in St. Augustine. When shown a book from her collection, despite her advanced years, she remembered who in her family owned it or gave it to her, and whether or not she enjoyed reading it. Mrs. Engelhardt died on April 18, 2017.
Original Format
Book / Unpublished Print Document
Collection
Citation
Goethe, book's author, “Faust: A Tragedy,” Beautiful Books in Flagler College's Special Collections, accessed May 15, 2024, https://beautifulbooks.omeka.net/items/show/89.