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BURKE,, Edmund (1729--1797)
[Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful. 1796]


The sublime and beautiful. By Edmund Burke, Esq. With an introductory discourse concerning taste, and other additions.

Oxford (Place), printed and sold at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews, Aberdeen, and Dublin,, 1796.
vi, [4], 194 p. ; 17.3cm. (12°)

First published anonymously in 1756. Soane also owned a copy of the 9th ed., 1782 (q.v.) as well as Burke's collected Works of 1801 (q.v.).

Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper John Soane / 1810.

Binding C19th tree calf, gilt-tooled spine, red morocco spine-label.

Reference Number 1823


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