The 1790 edition was the only one to appear in Bellman's lifetime.
It was published by Olof Åhlström, by royal privilege; he held a monopoly on the printing of sheet music in Sweden.
Åhlström arranged the songs for piano, and Kellgren edited the song texts and wrote an introduction, but the extent of their influence on the shape of Fredman's Epistles cannot be fully determined.
The edition was illustrated with a frontispiece by the leading Swedish artist Johan Tobias Sergel, engraved by Johan Fredrik Martin.

The corpus of published Epistles did not change after Bellman's death.
Many minor selections from the Epistles have been published, sometimes with illustrations and introductions.
The Epistles have been translated, at least partially, into Danish, German, French, English, Russian, Polish, Finnish, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch, as shown below.

The English edition by Britten Austin is a selection of the Epistles, and is in rhyming verse in the original metre.
Britten Austin describes the challenge of translation as difficult or impossible, and admits that in one way his translations are inevitably "a little faint."
He explains this is because "Bellman's colloquialisms which offended his contemporaries still strike Swedish ears as the language of everyday speech.
My renderings, therefore, may seem a trifle too antique in flavour; but to have jumbled up, as Bellman brilliantly does, modern-sounding slang with the graces of Rococo diction, would have produced a horrid effect.

Editions and selections of the Epistles, some with illustrations, some with music, some printed together with Fredman's Songs, include:
1790: Fredmans epistlar, Stockholm: Olof Åhlström, by Royal Privilege.

--- facsimile reprint, 1976: Uddevalla.

1816: Fredmans epistlar, Stockholm: Rumstedt.

1844: Fredmans epistlar, Copenhagen: Jaeger.
With 24 coloured lithographs.

1858: Fredmans epistlar, Text och musik, Copenhagen: J. Erslev. (
In Danish)
1869: Fredmans epistlar och sånger, Stockholm: Elkan and Schildknecht.

1889: Fredmans epistlar, Stockholm: Bonniers.
Arranged for piano solo.

1899: Fredmans epistlar af Carl Michael Bellman, Stockholm: Ljus.
Intro.
by Oscar Levertin.
Illus.
by Alf Wallander.

1909: Fredmans Episteln, Jena: E. Diederichs. (
In German)
1920: Fredmans epistlar, Ord och musik, Stockholm: Bonniers.

1927: Carl Michael Bellmans skrifter.
1.
Fredmans Epistlar, Stockholm: Bellmanssällskapet. ("
Standard Edition")
1953: Les Épîtres de Fredman, Stockholm: Norstedt. (
In French) 28 Epistles trans.
Nils Afzelius and Pierre Volboudt.
Illus.
Elias Martin.

--- reprinted, 1984: La Ferté-Milon.

1958: Das trunkene Lied, Munich: Desch. (
In German).
trans.
Hanns von Gumppenberg, Felix Niedner, Georg Schwarz.

1977: Fredman's Epistles and songs, Stockholm: Reuter and Reuter. (
In English) trans.
Paul Britten Austin.

1982: Pesni Fredmana; Poslaniia Fredmana, Leningrad: Khudozh. (
In Russian)
1991: Fredmanowe posłania i pieśni, Kraków: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne. (
In Polish)
1991: Lauluja ja epistoloita, Helsinki: Yliopistopaino. (
In Finnish)
1994: Fredmans epistlar, Stockholm: Proprius.

2002: Ulla, mia Ulla: antologia poetica in italiano cantabile, Rome: Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali. (
In Italian).
A selection.

2003: Sterven van liefde en leven van wijn : een bloemlezing uit de Epistels & Zangen van Fredman, 's-Hertogenbosch : Voltaire. (
In Dutch).
A selection.
The 1790 edition was the only one to appear in Bellman's lifetime. It was published by Olof Åhlström, by royal privilege; he held a monopoly on the printing of sheet music in Sweden. Åhlström arranged the songs for piano, and Kellgren edited the song texts and wrote an introduction, but the extent of their influence on the shape of Fredman's Epistles cannot be fully determined. The edition was illustrated with a frontispiece by the leading Swedish artist Johan Tobias Sergel, engraved by Johan Fredrik Martin.
The corpus of published Epistles did not change after Bellman's death. Many minor selections from the Epistles have been published, sometimes with illustrations and introductions. The Epistles have been translated, at least partially, into Danish, German, French, English, Russian, Polish, Finnish, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch, as shown below.
The English edition by Britten Austin is a selection of the Epistles, and is in rhyming verse in the original metre. Britten Austin describes the challenge of translation as difficult or impossible, and admits that in one way his translations are inevitably "a little faint." He explains this is because "Bellman's colloquialisms which offended his contemporaries still strike Swedish ears as the language of everyday speech. My renderings, therefore, may seem a trifle too antique in flavour; but to have jumbled up, as Bellman brilliantly does, modern-sounding slang with the graces of Rococo diction, would have produced a horrid effect.
Editions and selections of the Epistles, some with illustrations, some with music, some printed together with Fredman's Songs, include:
1790: Fredmans epistlar, Stockholm: Olof Åhlström, by Royal Privilege.
--- facsimile reprint, 1976: Uddevalla.
1816: Fredmans epistlar, Stockholm: Rumstedt.
1844: Fredmans epistlar, Copenhagen: Jaeger. With 24 coloured lithographs.
1858: Fredmans epistlar, Text och musik, Copenhagen: J. Erslev. (In Danish)
1869: Fredmans epistlar och sånger, Stockholm: Elkan and Schildknecht.
1889: Fredmans epistlar, Stockholm: Bonniers. Arranged for piano solo.
1899: Fredmans epistlar af Carl Michael Bellman, Stockholm: Ljus. Intro. by Oscar Levertin. Illus. by Alf Wallander.
1909: Fredmans Episteln, Jena: E. Diederichs. (In German)
1920: Fredmans epistlar, Ord och musik, Stockholm: Bonniers.
1927: Carl Michael Bellmans skrifter. 1. Fredmans Epistlar, Stockholm: Bellmanssällskapet. ("Standard Edition")
1953: Les Épîtres de Fredman, Stockholm: Norstedt. (In French) 28 Epistles trans. Nils Afzelius and Pierre Volboudt. Illus. Elias Martin.
--- reprinted, 1984: La Ferté-Milon.
1958: Das trunkene Lied, Munich: Desch. (In German). trans. Hanns von Gumppenberg, Felix Niedner, Georg Schwarz.
1977: Fredman's Epistles and songs, Stockholm: Reuter and Reuter. (In English) trans. Paul Britten Austin.
1982: Pesni Fredmana; Poslaniia Fredmana, Leningrad: Khudozh. (In Russian)
1991: Fredmanowe posłania i pieśni, Kraków: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne. (In Polish)
1991: Lauluja ja epistoloita, Helsinki: Yliopistopaino. (In Finnish)
1994: Fredmans epistlar, Stockholm: Proprius.
2002: Ulla, mia Ulla: antologia poetica in italiano cantabile, Rome: Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali. (In Italian). A selection.
2003: Sterven van liefde en leven van wijn : een bloemlezing uit de Epistels & Zangen van Fredman, 's-Hertogenbosch : Voltaire. (In Dutch). A selection.
Fredmans epistlar