Gotthold Ephraim Lessings sämmtliche Schriften
Lessing's collected writings, edited by Karl Lachmann and published in Berlin by Voss in 1838, drawn from the Getty Research Institute's holdings and aimed at scholars and general readers of German letters. The two plates are a horoscope chart labelled Oedipi Genitura, set in a diamond-and-square frame with planetary glyphs, and an arched emblem page with Latin and German verse around a tree of knowledge and a serpent, both showing dense typographic and diagrammatic layout a designer could borrow for structure.
