[BURKE, Edmund].

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.

London, R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. 8vo, pp. viii, [viii], 184; occasional slight dusting else a cleancopy in contemporary half calf with marbled boards, expertly rebacked; neatly rebacked, contrasting lettering piece. First edition. This highly influential work by Burke (1729–1797) on aesthetics was produced in ‘a rather small edition, possibly limited to 500 copies’ (Todd). It received instant acclaim: Dr Johnson called it ‘an example of true criticism’, Hume ‘a very pretty treatise’ and Reynolds, who commended only one modern work in his Decalogues, ‘the admirable treatise’.Todd 5a; Draper, p. 15.

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