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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Wettergrens Bokhandel, Goteborg, and Jean Touzot, Paris, (26 February] 1988, only edition; coloured frontispiece of von Proschwitz and a couple of plates in the text; large 8vo, 175 x 245mm; printed on heavy laid paper with untrimmed edges; handsomely, if curiously, bound half red morocco, spine gilt, with sides of alternating duck-egg blue velvet and glazed blue-tinted lined paper, identifying the book as one of the specially bound volumes (a soft cover edition was also published). . . . . . The work reprints many articles by von Proschwitz, includes essays by others, a short resumé ofthe subject. a bibliography and a ist of his books, and a lexical index. . . . . . von Proschwitz was born in Göteborg/Gothenburg and, other than a short period as Professor of Romance languages at Uppsala University, spent his whole life in the city. A noted scholar of French, his particular topic of interest was 18th century France and in particular the country's relations with Sweden.