A history of the Leipzig publisher and printer G. J. Göschen (1752-1822), giving insights into the structure of publishing in the age of Goethe; as publisher of Goethe, Schiller, Klopstock and Wieland, Göschen's name is closely linked with the German literature of the late Enlightenment and the Classical period. Vol. 3, a reference catalogue of letters, has already been published.