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We are concerned with imbeddings of general spaces of Besov and Lizorkin-Triebel type with dominating mixed derivatives in the first critical case. We employ multivariate exponential Orlicz and Lorentz-Orlicz spaces as targets. We study basic properties of the target spaces, in particular, we compare them with usual exponential spaces, showing that in this case the multivariate clones are in fact better adapted to the character of smoothness of the imbedded spaces. Then we prove sharp limiting imbedding theorems and establish estimates for the multivariate growth envelope functions.