Booksellers and bookselling
Subject
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Letter from George Georgeson Stalhberg to bookseller James Dodsley, 19 February 1777
Item — Box CLX-A-479
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0102
Scope and Contents
This is a letter from Swedish politican George Georgeson Stalhberg to James Dodsley, sent from Edinburgh to London on the 19th of February 1777. Stahlberg wrote to Dodsley, a successful bookseller, because he wanted him to sell his book entitled "An [sic] History of the late Revolution in Sweden [...]" in his shop. Stahlberg's book is a pejorative account of the coup d'État by Gustav III that happened in Sweden on the 19th of August 1772. The "revolution" was carried out without bloodshed,...
Dates:
19 February 1777