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The sorrows and sympathetic attachments of Werter; : a German story / by Mr. Goethe, Doctor of the Civil Law. ; Volume the first[-second]. ; [Six lines in praise of the author].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18501.
- Standardized Title:
- Leiden des jungen Werthers. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (71 pages, 1 unnumbered page)
- Other Title:
- Sorrows of Werter.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street., M,DCC,LXXXIV.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Running title: The sorrows of Werter.
- The translation, wrongly attributed to Richard Graves, was probably made by Daniel Malthus from the French version of Georges Deyverdun. Cf. Die erste englische Ausgabe des "Werther." Jahrbuch der Sammlung Kippenberg V (1925): pages 13ff.
- "The second volume ... will be published, ten days from this date ... January 24th, 1784."--p. 40. Vol. 2 (pages [41]-[72]) has separate title page.
- Bookseller's advertisements on pages 40 and [72].
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 18501).
- Cited in:
- Evans 18501
- Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4485
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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