Author: KLOPSTOCK. [SMITH (Elizabeth)], editor and translator:
Title: Memoirs of Frederick and Margaret Klopstock. Translated from the German by the Author of "Fragments in Prose and Verse."
Description: Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell..., 1808. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xii, 236, contemporary calf, gilt spine. A very good copy. This work is based on letters given to Smith (1776 - 1806) by Dr Mummsen of Altona, one of several works published after her early death. She was an exceptionally gifted woman, described by her mother "a living library; but locked up, except to a chosen few."

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