THÜMMEL, M.

Wilhelmine, Poeme heroi-comique.

Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1769.

8vo. In contemporary full calf with richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Corner's bumped and small paper label pasted on to top spine, otherwise fine and clean. (14), 118 pp. and 7 full page plates including in the pagination. Printed on good paper. 

First French translation of Thummel’s famous "Wilhelmine", regarded by many as German literature’s finest example of a mock epic produced in the wake of Pope's “Rape of the Lock”.

Order-nr.: 60725