FIRST SWEDISH TRANSLATION OF SHAKESPEARE

SHAKESPEARE.

Macbeth. Öfversatt af Eric Gustaf Geijer.

Upsala, Stenhammar och Palmblad, 1813.

8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front-wrapper. From the library of Swedish crime author Henning Mankell. Light soiling to extremities and front wrapper partly detached, otherwise a fine and clean copy. (4), 106 pp.

The rare first full transation of any of Shakespeare's works into Swedish. A translation of a scene from Coriolanus appeared in 1796, but Macbeth was the first of his plays to be printed in Swedish.
From the libary of Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, Henning Mankell, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.

Order-nr.: 56066