Helena Maria Linnerhielm’s Vitterhetsförsök, 1795

[Helena Maria Linnerhielm] | [Jonas Carl Linnerhielm] (ed.):

Witterhets försök.

Stockholm, tryckt hos Anders Zetterberg, 1795. Small 8vo. (16,5 x 10,5 cms.) Engraved title + engraved dedication leaf ”Dig!” (You!) + [2] + 54 pp. With 26 beatiful engraved illustrations and vignettes by the author’s husband, Jonas Carl Linnerhielm. With the dedication leaf, frequently lacking.

An attractive copy in later full morocco gilt, top edge gilt, spine faded. Bibliographical annotations in pencil from booksellers Björck & Börjesson. Bookplate of F. E. Herman Wallin.

First edition of the only collection of poetry by Helena Maria Linnerhielm (1760-1800).

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