12mo. iv, 191pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Later burgundy half-calf, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, paper shelf-label to foot of dulled spine. Foxed, offsetting to title.

A new translation, purportedly 'revised and compared with all the former editions', of Goethe's perennially popular epistolary novel, a key text of the Sturm und Drang movement. The anonymous translator's prefatory remarks state: 'The present edition has been printed with a view to combine not only the real force and sentiment of Werter, as they are given by Mr. Goethe, but as a more perfect model of the author's manner, which has been much perverted, and often misconceived.'

OCLC records a single copy of this edition in the British Isles (UoL), and seven copies in North America (Cornell, Dalhousie, Elmira, Indiana, Mississippi, Princeton, Yale); COPAC adds no further.