Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Fabeln. Drey Bücher. Nebst Abhandlungen mit dieser Dichtungsart verwandten Inhalts. Berlin, Christian Friedrich Voss, 1759. 8vo. [2], XII, "249" [= 250] pp. Contemporary calf, marbled edge and endpapers. Title page with engraved vignette and engraved frontispiece. With ex libris of Otto Landsberg on wrapper. Spine slightly damaged and top repaired with a piece of leather, interior fairly brown and here and there some staining.

First edition, with page 250 erroneously numbered "249" (corrected in later edition).