(KLINGER, F. M. von) 
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Doctor Faust’s lefwerne, gerningar och hellwetesfärd. Öfwersättning. I-III. Stockholm, J. C. Holmberg, 1801. 8vo. Engraved title page,122 pp. + engraved title page,80 pp. + engraved title page,141 pp. & 1 engraved plate. Contemporary, somewhat worn but attractively glazed dark blue boards with gilt-ruled spine, gilt spine title, and blue-speckled edges. The first title leaf is lightly soiled. Minor repairs and reinforcement to the inner margin of the first gathering (pp. 1–16). Scattered foxing throughout, with somewhat heavier spotting on pp. 36–44 of the first part and pp. 77–80 of the second part. The final leaf has a small repair to the lower margin. On the front pastedown are the erroneous inscription ”af Vulpius” and the correct inscription stating that the book was prosecuted. A fine copy from the Ericsberg library, with the armorial bookplate of Carl Jedvard Bonde.
Åhlén & Åhlén Censur och tryckfrihet 18.10. Translated by Eric Magnus Lindströmer. The engraved plate facing p. 126 in the third part is present only in some copies of the edition. The work is a humorous contemporary satire, and in Sweden both the translator and the printer were prosecuted in a widely noted trial, in which they were fined. Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (1752–1831) was a German novelist and playwright. He belonged to Goethe’s circle, and his play ”Sturm und Drang” gave its name to the proto-Romantic movement in German literature.
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