Laocoon by Lessing, First Edition (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1930 Printing; Olive Green C W/Gilt Spine Titles; 294 Clean, Unmarked Pages+Catalogue; Lite Toning Of End Papers, Sunned Spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stiff pictorial wraps. 5th ptg. thus: 1968. Modest handling wear. Square binding, unmarked interior. xi,245 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Everyman's Library 843. Previous owner's name and date.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Translated with an Introduction by William A. Steel. First Everyman edition and printing. In fairly good pale green cloth boards with blind stamped logo to front and gilt titles and decoration to spine. The boards are flat and with bleached marks to front and rear. They are also loose, especially to front, from cracking to hinges. The Reginald Knowles illustrated end papers are unmarked. The text block is securely attached and flat; the half title page and the last page of Index is tanned, otherwise the pages are clean. In better condition that the boards. Very good and overall condition is good plus. No dedications etc. Without jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy in the publisher's cloth, old college stamp on the front end paper and title page. Some related notes in pen on the end papers, and in pencil to a few margins in the text.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Everyman edition, edited and with an Introduction by Wiliam A Steel. 296pp. Olive green cloth covered boards with gilt title. Decorated title page. Dark green top edge. Internally clean. An influential essay on Greek art and two plays.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1984]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in green printed dust jacket; ix,[1],275pp. Moderate shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine a shade sunned, corners bumped, textblock uniformly toned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound.

1st edition hardback in decorated cloth Nice copy small octavo 296pp., text ill., Everyman's Library no 843.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine, tanned dustwrapper with a one-paragraph biography of the author laid in.

Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG- DW. 1st Thus (Late Issue). Green cloth lettered in gold on spine (no decoration). Grey-Green "Poetry and Drama" DW has "lighthouse" logo on spine, "over 800 volumes" on rear flap and "A few of the 400 authors"on rear cover.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale. In-8° , broché , 240 pages.

Half title, 10pp cata. Orig. green cloth, blocked & lettered in gilt; spine sl. marked & rubbed. Signature of Tillotson on leading f.e.p. A good-plus copy. Laocoon, 1766. First English edition, 1836, translated by William Ross. First edition of this translation. The title essay, one of Lessing's most enduring, is on the nature of poetry as opposed to the visual arts. This volume also contains essays on Voltaire and Shakespeare, Historical Accuracy in Drama, Comedy, Acting, and The Education of the Human Race.

Paris, Antoine Augustin Renouard, an X - 1802. In-8, demi-chagrin rouge à coins à grain long, dos orné d'un riche décor de compartiments garnis de palettes, roulettes à froid, filets, grecques et fer spécial répétés au centre (reliure de l'époque), xvj, 384 p., planche gravée en frontispice, exemplaire non rogné. Edition originale française de ce texte fondamental dans l'histoire de la critique et de l'esthétique modernes, enrichi d'un frontispice gravé par Saint-Aubin, d'après J.-G. Salvage, représentant le célèbre groupe du Laocoon sculpté par Agésandros. "La découverte, au début du XVIe siècle, à Rome, du groupe du Laocoon que l'on croyait perdu eut un retentissement considérable. Lessing en fait le thème de son oeuvre majeure, dans laquelle il explore les relations, de la peinture et de la poésie et définit leurs frontières. Rompant avec la doctrine dominante du classicisme, il jette les bases d'une esthétique nouvelle où les arts plastiques se trouvent émancipés de la tutelle du langage. Il annonce ainsi les grands développements de la critique artistique, jusqu'aux avancées contemporaines de l'iconologie" (Hubert Damisch). "Lessing's best-known work outside Germany, and it had a world-wide influence" (Printing and the Mind of Man, n°213). Le traducteur Charles Vanderbourg émigra sous la Terreur en Allemagne où il devint l'ami de Jacobi et de Stolberg. Quelques rousseurs et auréoles. Très bon exemplaire, non rogné, bien relié à l'époque dans le goût de Bozerian.