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2 blank leaves + half title + TP + [v]-x + [xi]-[xv] = Contents + [xvi] = Corrections + [1]-655 + 2 blank leaves, Quarto. First Edition.Beattie's Dissertations - His "Best Prose Work" and "A Feast for Epicures"Essays by the distinguished member of the Scottish school of philosophy including On Memory and Imagination. On Dreaming. The Theory of Language. On Fable and Romance. On the Attachments of Kindred. Illustrations of Sublimity.The poet and philosopher James Beattie (1735-1803) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. One of his biographer, Roger J. Robinson, describes the Dissertations as Beattie's "best prose work" (ODNB) and draws particular attention to the treatise on the theory of language.On reading this book, Cowper declared that Beattie was the only author he had read "whose critical and philosophical researches are diversified and embellished by a poetic imagination that makes even the driest subject and the leanest a feast for epicures." (DNB) Full contemporary tree calf with gilt, fine double rule and design on the outside borders of front and back boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt designs. There is a new, but contemporary styled title label added to second spine compartment. The terior is crisp, tight and clean. A lovely contemporary copy. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Seller Inventory # 840
Bibliographic Details
Title: Dissertations Moral and Critical.
Publisher: W. Strahan, London
Publication Date: 1783
Edition: FIRST EDITION.
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