PRESENTATION COPY.
OEHLENSCHLÄGER, ADAM.
Regnar Lodbrok. Et Heltedigt.
Kiøbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1849.
8vo. Bound with the original front wrapper in a recent cardboard binding. Spine slightly faded. Wear to extremeties. Inscribed by Oehlenschläger to front wrapper: "Til min Ven J. G. Adler / fra / A Oehlenschlæger." ('For my frind J. G. Adler, from A. Oehlenschlæger'). Scattered brownspots, otherwise internally clean. 164,(2) pp.
A neat copy, printed on good paper, of the first edition of Oehlenschläger's influential heroic poem on the deeds of Regnar Lodbrog. Oehlenschläger is widely regarded as the father of the Danish Golden Age. His collection of poems, 'Digte 1803', published when he was only 23 years old, brought romantic nationalism to Denmark and remains to this day one of the most important works of Danish literature. The copy carries a handwritten inscription from Oehlenschläger to J. G. Adler (1784-1852), private secretary to Christian VIII of Denmark.
Order-nr.: 61173
DKK 2.500,00