17 x 11 cm. 394 pages. Original black morocco binding on five ribs with spine title, red leather binding, and silk endpapers, gilt edges and gilt headboard. (Signed: Noulhac). - Special edition of the first edition of "Emilia Galotti." With this drama, published in 1772 and premiered in the same year, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing created one of the most important examples of the bourgeois tragedy. The play is considered one of the key works of Enlightenment literature. One of the few copies printed on strong paper. Bound in a perfect morocco binding by the French master bookbinder Henri Nolhac (1866-1931). Impeccably preserved. - Goedeke IV, 1, 421, 123. - Muncker p. 432. - Wilpert/Gühring 2/54.