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KELLGREN, Johan Henrik (1751-1795). Sinnenas förening och Mina löjen. Twenne skaldestycken af J.H.K. . [Lund: Berling, 1786.] 8° (188 x 120mm). (Spotted, repaired tear on title.) Original printed wrapper. Provenance : AGW (stamp). Both works were first written in 1778. [KELLGREN, J.H.] Gustaf Wasa, lyrisk tragedie i tre acter . Stockholm: Royal Printing Shop [1786]. 4° (255 x 213mm). (Preliminaries ):(2.1 and 2 detached, ):(2.3 neat marginal tear, light spotting, heavier towards first and final leaves). Stitched, uncut. -- [KELLGREN, J.H.] Gustaf Adolph och Ebba Brahe, lyrisk drame i tre acter . Stockholm: Kongl. Finska Boktryckeriet, Johan A. Carlbohm, 1788. 4° (274 x 210mm). (Occasional spotting, marginal soiling C3.4.) UNCUT AND UNOPENED. Modern blue paper wrappers. -- [KELLGREN, J.H.] Drottning Christina, drame i fyra acter . Stockholm: Anders Jacobsson Nordström, 1792. 4° (274 x 215mm). (Marginal spotting *3.) Unbound, UNCUT AND UNOPENED). Drottning Christina was first performed at the court theatre at Gripsholm on Lake Mälaren. KELLGREN, J.H. Samlade skrifter . Stockholm: Johan Pehr Lindh, 1796. 3 volumes, 8° (181 x 105mm). Full-page engraved portrait of Kellgren after Sergel. (Small ink stain vol. I, u7.8, loss of a couple of letters, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary half calf gilt (rubbed). Provenance : Greta Gahn, (?the artist b.1894, inscription on half-title) -- Isaac Gustaf, Clason (inscription on front pastedown); and another. Kellgren began publishing poems in the 1770s and he was for a period Gustaf III's private secretary with the task of versifying the King's opera librettos. He was the most influential Swedish writer of the Gustavian era. (8)