166. CARL CARLESON, ed.

Attempts to preserve Swedish Skalde-Konstens, or Collection of selected Swedish Rhymes and Poems I-VI. (I:1-3 + II:1-3). Complete.

B. G. Schneider, Stockholm, 1737-38. 4o in a contemporary slightly rubbed half-French binding with gilt spine and spine title and splattered covers. With C. F. Piper's name in gilt on the front cover and Gustaf Berndtsson's ex-libris on the inside of the front cover. Older handwritten note and a couple of small stamps on the first title page. Pure submission. Considered the first Swedish dictation anthology.