BIB_ID
118221
Accession number
MA 461
Creator
Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878.
Display Date
1871 Mar.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (255 p.) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
A penciled notation on the verso of the leaf preceding the title page, indicates that Act III is missing and that a "note on p. 178 says it was returned to Bayard Taylor."
A translation by Bayard Taylor of Part Two of the original German work by Goethe, in the original metres.
Five lines, in German, from Goethe's "Torquato Tasso" are included on the title page; they are from Act I, Scene I and are lines spoken by Leonora.
A translation by Bayard Taylor of Part Two of the original German work by Goethe, in the original metres.
Five lines, in German, from Goethe's "Torquato Tasso" are included on the title page; they are from Act I, Scene I and are lines spoken by Leonora.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society in 1908.
Summary
Written on the rectos of 255 lined pages; with a Table of Contents, an eight-page Introduction and a note to the publisher at the end of the Table of Contents; with minor revisions and corrections.
Housed in
Brown morocco.
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