Bidspirit auction | JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, ”FAUST”

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, ”FAUST” SIGNED LIMITED EDITION BY WILLY POGANY - This lot features a rare first deluxe edition of ”Faust” written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and includes thirty grand color plates from the enigmatic Willy Pogany; eighteen more than later early editions. Limited edition of 100 beautifully signed and numbered by Willy Pogany at limitation page, this being number 30/100. See photos for condition. William Andrew Pogany was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. His contemporaries include C. Coles Phillips, Joseph Clement Coll, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Walter Hunt Everett, Harry Rountree, Sarah Stilwell Weber, and N.C. Wyeth.