Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. How the old made death. 5 Bl., 87 S. With engraved title vignette, engraved head vignet and 5 copper plates. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Semi-leather d. Z. (lightly rubbed and impacted, lid light-edge) with gold-embossed RSchild. Berlin, Christian Friedrich Voß, 1769. Goedeke IV, 1, 417, 113. Muncker p. 418f. Seifert 1189. Borst 201. – First edition. "Despite the inadequacy of Lessing's artistic evidence and the material that is dry for the larger reader, writing gains a vitality of the argumentation that Goethe and Schiller enthused through its clear, powerful, elegantly composed prose style" (KLL VII, 1108). – Well-preserved, clean specimen.