Paul och Virginie. Comedie med sång i tre akter. Musiken av herr Kreutzer. Öfversättning af D. G. Björn. Första gången upförd på Svenska Comiska Theatern den 15 maji 1794.
Häftad bok. Stockholm, Joh. Christ. Holmberg, på översättarens förlag. 1794.
Gott skick. 8vo. (2), 66 pp. Disbound, foxing. With the control stamp of the translator D. G. Björn on title as always. The story of Paul and Virginie by Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was published for the first time in 1788 and was an immidiate success. The following 100 years it went through an unmanageable number of editions, adaptions and translations. The story is set on Mauritius and treat the burning issues of education, social classes and slavery on the eve of the French revolution. This is an early Swedish translation of Favières opera libretto adaption, originally published in 1791 and set in music by Rodolphe Kreutzer.
