GOETHE (Johann Wolfgang von), GWASG GREGYNOG & BEADSMOORE (Richard)

Poems

EXPLORES THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN GOETHE'S LITERATURE AND HIS RADICAL CONCEPTS OF VISION

One of 200 copies. 4to., 29.5 x 18cm, (viii), [2], 51 pp, [3]. Finely bound by Richard Beadsmoore in pink dyed goatskin with a variety of inlay and onlay of geometric shapes in yellow, blue, red and purple, with gilt dots and rules, red goatskin doublures toold with gilt and palladium intertwined floral patterns, endpapers with printed production of Goethe’s holograph, top edge rough gilt, others untrimmed, with original yellow and red cloth drop back box, upper cover with reproduction of Goethe’s portrait, spine lettered in gilt on pink onlay goatskin label. Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog, 2000.

£2,500.00

Fine.

Based on Goethe’s Theory of Colours, published in 1810, Richard Beadsmoore’s binding explores the interplay between Goethe’s literature and his radical concepts of vision. Turning to the doublures, however, shows Goethe’s more traditional aspect, alluding to the representaiton of ‘liebostod’ (love and death) in his poetry, and in German romanticism as a whole.

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247641