VITTRA SKRIFTER: I urval utgifna af Karl Warburg
Stockholm: F. & G. Beijers, 1894. Third Edition. Hardcover. Selected writings by the Swedish lecturer in philosophy and longtime professor of aesthetics in Oslo (Christiania). Wikner (1837-88) is primarily remembered for producing the first description of the problematics about homosexual identity and the coming-out process. Printed by P. Palmquist: Stockholm, and bound by Lindmansson: Stockholm. Octavo: 366 pp. with the portrait frontispiece, a halftone after photograph. Original blue diagonal fine-ribbed cloth binding, with black-stamped ruled and dotted line borders, black and gilt-stamped floral and arabesque decorations, and gilt-stamped titling on the front panel; gilt-stamped ruled and ornamental head and tail bands, and titling on the spine; and blind-stamped ruled borders, and central ornamental device on the rear panel. Light dust staining to the top edge, with just a hint of rubbing to the corners and tips; else near fine. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Near fine. Item #80935
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