The Life of Goethe, Volume The Second George Henry Lewes
1882. Third edition. 414 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white affixed frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to rear hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Minor pen inscription to title page. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.