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Mendelssohn - An Freund Lessings
Mendelssohn, M. To the friends of Lessing. An Appendix to Mr. Jacobi's Correspondence on the Doctrine of Spinoza. (Edited by J.J. Engel). Berlin, Voss and Son, 1786. XXIV, 87 pp. Cl.-8°. Central hardcover with floral reredos and cover - Goedeke IV, 490, 17; Meyer 334; Mendelssohn Cat. Wolfenbüttel 138 - First edition - The deciding factor for this work, which required Mendelssohn's last strength, was the denigration of his revered friend Lessing. Mendelssohn died shortly afterwards because he had caught a cold on the way to the printer's. - Pages XVII-XXIV of the preface are bound before the last leaf.
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