Laocoön / Nathan the Wise / Minna von Barnhelm (Everyman's Library #843) by LESSING, Gotthold Ephraim - 1970

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0460008439 . An Everyman's Library edition offering an English translation of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's "Laocoön, or, The Limits of Painting and Poetry", ". . .an essay aiming at defining by analysis the limitations of poetry and the plastic arts." (per Ross, p.301). This volume also includes Lessing's dramas: "Nathan the Wise" and "Minna von Barnhelm". Laocoön and Nathan translated from the German by editor W. A. Steel, who also provides an introduction. Minna translated by A. A. Dent. Entry 843 in Everyman's Library Poetry & Drama series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 5. Full green textured paper-covered boards with titling and "Everyman's Library" gilt-stamped on spine, dolphin-and-anchor device borrowed from Aldine press in gilt at tail of spine; blue topstain. In lavender dust jacket with a photo of Laocoön group statue as displayed at the Vatican on front panel. --- A very nice copy: clean, bright and tightly-bound but with brown specks to textblock fore-edge, prior owner's sticker and inked commentary about this work to front endpapers. Bright, price-clipped dust jacket with slight darkening to spine, otherwise in great shape and protected in removable archival mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xiii, 294 pages .