West-Oestlicher Divan

West-Oestlicher Divan by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. Published by Cottaischen Buchhandlung in 1819. Hardcover. First edition (second printing with corrections on page 7 and 9) of this collection of orientalized poems, much influenced by the 14th-century Persian lyric poet Hafiz and inspired by Goethe's muse, Marianne von Willemer. Ref. Goedeke IV, 3, p. 492, 110; Hagen 416D; Kippenberg 360. Contemporary binding, paper covers with gilt ruled border. Flat spine with gilt title coloured with dark green varnish and slightly damaged.