Oak Knoll

First edition. Catalogue of the William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana at the Yale University Library. A short biography of Speck is included at the beginning. Dedication to Andrew Keogh. Individual sections for Collected Works, Collections of Poems, Single Poems, Elegies and Epigrams and specific texts. Each large section contains sub-headings to separate posthumous publication, translations, critiques and music, to name only a few. 2373 items in all. Volume contains seventeen color and black-and-white plates many of which are fold-out reproductions of letters and manuscripts. From the reference library of H.P. Kraus.