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It's right in the end: Goethe's lawyer revealed his reservation price of 1000 talers to Vieweg and he bid just that.

• ikeboy 10y ago
  It doesn't say "he bid just that" explicitly.
  • tpeo 10y ago
    Oops, I guess you're right about that. I took the expression "nary a penny more" to mean "nary a penny more [than 1000 talers]", since I assumed that Vieweg still bought the manuscript. I see now that this isn't explicit at all. But Moldovanu & Tietzel (1998) [0] do report in their article that "Vieweg offered exactly that sum [1000 thalers]". So there it is! [0]: https://www.econ2.uni-bonn.de/pdf/papers/goethes_second.pdf https://www.econ2.uni-bonn.de/pdf/papers/goethes_second.pdf
    • ikeboy 10y ago
      Good find!