Author: Gessner, Solomon & Huber, M [translator]
Title: La Mort D' Abel, Poëme En Cinq Chants
Description: L Lefort, Rue Esquermoise, Lille, 1808, a new edition. Full calf, G. xxviii+187pp, portrait frontis, 4 engraved plates, leather rather worn along the edges & having a rather tired appearance, lettering piece mostly missing, fore edge thumbed, internally a nice copy. Large elephantine bookplate of E R Sawer on the pastedown. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ French edition of an idylic pastoral prose poem by the Swiss poet & romantic painter Solomon Gessner [ 1730 - 1788 ], originally published as 'Der Tod Abels' in 1758.

Keywords: literature, poems, poetry, swiss literature