LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM — Nathan The Wise. A dramatic poem. Transl. from the German by Patrick Maxwell. Ed. with an introduction, comprising a biographical sketch of the Author, a critical analysis of the poem and an account of the relations between Lessing and Moses Mendelssohn by George Alexander Kohut.

New York, 1917. 388 pp. With frontispiece portrait of the author (detached). And 5 plates of which 1 detached. Else very good condition. Contemp. full blue-green morocco with minor wear, spine gilt lettered, gilt top-edge, spine discolored. Translated from the German into the English. The character of Nathan is to a large part modeled after Lessing's lifelong friend, the eminent philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Play - Theater - Judaica