Immanuel Kant’s Kritik der reinen Vernunft (1884 Third Revised Stereotype Edition, Benno Erdmann)

Early German scholarly edition of Kant’s landmark Critique of Pure Reason, edited by philosopher and Kant scholar Benno Erdmann and published in Hamburg and Leipzig by Leopold Voss in 1884. This is the third, repeatedly revised stereotype edition (“3., mehrfach verbesserte Stereotypausgabe”), comprising XXII + 680 pages and including the portrait frontispiece of Kant. Bibliographic records confirm the 1884 Erdmann edition and its third-edition status.

Your copy is in an attractive period half-leather binding with marbled paper boards, raised spine bands, and gilt spine lettering. The exterior is heavily worn, particularly the leather along the spine and joints, with substantial rubbing, surface loss, and deterioration at the head and tail. The photos also show significant splitting/separation along the front joint/hinge, so I would describe the binding as Fair / Poor, despite the text block appearing substantially intact. There are also several contemporary/early handwritten annotations and ownership markings in the text.

This particular Erdmann edition has genuine scholarly interest—it's not simply a random late-19th-century reprint—but it is not an early edition of Kant's work itself. The first edition was 1781 and substantially revised second edition 1787; Erdmann's edition belongs to the later scholarly transmission of the text.