1788 · Elizabethtown [NJ]
by Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb
Elizabethtown [NJ]: Shepard Kollock, 1788. xvi, 264, 263-383, [3 blanks] pp [as issued]. Scattered foxing. Bound in original leather [light scuffing] with raised spine bands and gilt-lettered red leather spine label. Good+ or so.
"A prose translation of Klopstock's Der Messias, begun by Mary Collyer and after her death completed by her husband, Joseph Collyer. The Collyer translation was first published in London in 1763. This is the first American edition" [Felcone].
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Felcone Collection 119. Evans 21190. ESTC W26165. (Inventory #: 18034)
"A prose translation of Klopstock's Der Messias, begun by Mary Collyer and after her death completed by her husband, Joseph Collyer. The Collyer translation was first published in London in 1763. This is the first American edition" [Felcone].
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Felcone Collection 119. Evans 21190. ESTC W26165. (Inventory #: 18034)