OVERPRINTED IN GILT
KÜMMELMANN, Carl Gottlob. Dass Gott die Wohlthaten hier auf Erden an denen Kindern lohne, wolte bey der Hochadelichen Verbindung des Hochwohlgebohrnen Herrn, Herrn Ferdinand Ludewig von Haussen … mit der Hochwohlgebohrnen Fräulein, Fraeulein Carolinen Dietericken Louysen von Zehmen …
Naumburg, gedruckt bey Johann Michael Prüffer …  [1768].
2 copies, folio (325 × 192 mm), each pp. [4]; woodcut head- and tailpieces; one copy printed on better paper with the names on the title overprinted in gilt, and bound in gilt wrappers, the other copy entirely printed in black and unbound.
Two copies of a rare piece of occasional verse by local pastor Carl Gottlob Kümmelmann, on the occasion of the wedding of Ferdinand Ludwig von Hausen, valet de chambre at the court in Gotha, and Caroline Dietricken Louyse von Zehmen, from an old Saxon family.

One copy is printed on fine paper, with the names on the title overprinted in gilt, the second copy, clearly for lower-ranking guests, is printed on normal paper.

Not found in OCLC or KVK.
£600   
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