Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07322 Author/Creator: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 Place Written: London, England Type: Book signed Date: 1770 Pagination: xvi, 342 p. , 6 p. of plates ; 22 x 14.5 cm Order a Copy
Sixth edition, printed by J. Dodsley in London. Signed on the title page by James Wilson and Bird Wilson. This was an influential eighteenth century English tract on aesthetics.
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