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Wahlstrom & Widstrand, Stockholm, Published 1943. Hardcover, 226 pp.; 27 cm; text in Swedish; illustrated throughout with black-and-white reproductions of engravings, drawings, watercolors and paintings. Printed by A/B Gustaf Lindstroms Boktryckeri. Original 1943 printing (a facsimile was issued in 1987).
In Very Good condition, no dust jacket, as bound. Later binding in red pebble-grain faux leather, spine with five gilt-decorated false bands and gilt lettering (title and compilers), gilt rolls at head and tail; patterned cream and pale blue endpapers. Light bumping to corners and edges. Binding tight. Original printed wrappers bound in: front wrapper with mounted color reproduction of three policemen at a bridge railing, printed spine strip, and rear wrapper with publisher's price. Two inscriptions in Swedish on front blank, a 50th-birthday greeting and a 1966 gift inscription recalling a stay in Stockholm. Scattered foxing to bound-in spine strip leaf; pages lightly toned, otherwise clean and unmarked. A picture book of three centuries of Stockholm street and social life, from the Swedish age of great power to about 1900, compiled by Gosta Selling, director of the Stockholm City Museum, with art critic Gotthard Johansson and Goran Axel-Nilsson. The foreword says it grew out of the museum's exhibition "Stockholmsliv genom konstnarsogon" (Stockholm life through artists' eyes). Six chapters pair the city with its writers and artists, from Erik Dahlberg's Suecia engravings and Bellman's 18th-century taverns to the Stockholm of Strindberg and Hjalmar Soderberg. Images include Pehr Hillestrom's interiors, the Martin school's views, Princess Eugenie's drawing of Jenny Lind as Lucia, and Eugene Jansson's "Stadens utkant" (1899). Published in 1943, the year neutral Sweden ended German troop transit across the country. Contents: Forord; Erik Dahlbergs Stockholm; Bellmans Stockholm; Karl Johans Stockholm; August Blanches Stockholm; Strindbergs Stockholm; Hjalmar Soderbergs Stockholm.