Letters written from various parts of the continent, between the years 1785 and 1794 : containing a variety of anecdotes relative to the present state of literature in Germany, and to celebrated German literati. With an appendix, in which are included, three letters of Gray's, never before published in this country
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Title: Letters written from various parts of the continent, between the years 1785 and 1794 : containing a variety of anecdotes relative to the present state of literature in Germany, and to celebrated German literati. With an appendix, in which are included, three letters of Gray's, never before published in this country
Other titles: Briefe
Classmark: Anglo-German/MAT
Creator(s): Matthisson, Friedrich von (1761-1831)
Additional creator(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) (Other); Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818) (Other)
Related people: Gray, Thomas; Plumptre, Anne
Publisher: Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1799
Language: English
Size and medium: xvi, [1], 2-544 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/221122
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991011745709705181
Description
"The first six letters were written to -- von Köpken... and the last to the poet Salis. -- The rest are addressed to Charles von Bonstetten, Baillie of Nion in the canton of Bern. They were published [with title: Briefe von F. Matthisson] at Zürich in ... 1795, in two ... volumes." - Advertisement by the translator, p. [iii]-iv.
"Errata": p. 544.
Appendix includes: "Stanzas to the Lake of Geneva" and notes.
BM vol. 155, col. 710.
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