Rabener, Gottlieb Wilhelm. Letters, collected by himself and after his death, along with a message of his life and writings, published by C. F. White. 2 Bl., LXXXVI, 304 S. With stung frontispiece. 20,5 x 12 cm. Simple cardboard tape d. C. (stronger rubbed, damaged and impacted) with paper backplate. Leipzig, Dyck, 1772. Goedeke IV/1, 41, 4. Borst 246. – First edition of the autobiographical records "Test of a Diary", the "Friendly Letters" and the extensive biography of the great satirical writer of the Enlightenment by the anacreontic poet Christian Felix Weiße (1726-1804). One of two different prints in the collation from the year of the first edition, here in a single copy with the collusion indicated at Goedeke. The satiric and tax councillor Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener (1714-1771) published "after 1755 no new satires with regard to his high office and the proximity of the Dresden court" (NDB). Exemplary with the two sheet of print Privileges not mentioned at Goedeke, which are bound between the title and the first text sheet. – A little brown- and sticky-spotted, purpose stamped and with old blind stamped coat of arms.