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[FAUST]. The remarkable life of dr. faustus, a German astrologer and enchanter; relating the means adopted by him to raise the devil...

Derby. Published by Richardson and Son, [s.d., c. 1830]
12mo. 23pp, [1]. Original publisher’s printed blue wrappers. A trifle spotted, slight chipping to spine.
An uncommon survival, in original unsophisticated state, of an anonymous Derby-printed prose edition of the perennially popular German legend of Faust. An apparently contemporary edition in boards, also issued by Richardson (but likely not for six-pence), contained a colour frontispiece which this edition doesn’t feature.

OCLC records copies at four locations (Cambridge, Louisiana, Oxford, and Yale); COPAC adds two further (BL and NLW).
£ 375.00 Antiquates Ref: 26049