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London; Macmillan and Co, 1874, 1874. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo, pp. lxii, [2] List of Illustrations and errata, 360. Three mounted Woodbury type illustrations to plates including frontispiece portrait of Lessing, each with tissue guard. Publishers' umber cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt roundel to upper board and decorative black border to boards. Contemporary inscription with familial association to half title 'Mary Phillimore from R'. Cover cloth so iled and rubbed with bruised corners and minor wear to spine tips. Inner front hinge cracked but holding firmly. Scattered light foxing. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. A good copy. A series of theoretical essays by German philosopher and dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, translated by Phillimore.