Figure 86
Title-page of first edition of Faust: Goschen, Leipsic
From Goschen’s Life of George Joachim Goschen (facsimile), University of Dayton (scan)
1790
Georg Joachim Goschen (1752–1828) was the publisher of the first edition of Goethe’s Faust, the title-page of which is reproduced, and which speaks—or “whispers”—for itself.