Elements of Criticism with the Author's Last Corrections and Additions. Boston: Samuel Etheridge, 1796.
First American Edition. Volume two of two only. Widely known classic in the field of aesthetics, in which he codified the Lockian "ideal presence.” Includes chapters on Perceptions and Ideas, Emotions and Passions, Beauty, Grandeur and Sublimity, Novelty, Congenity and Propriety, Dignity and Grace, Ridicule, Wit, Custom and Habit, Sentiments, Language of Passion, Beauty of Language, Epic and Dramatic Compositions, Gardening and Architecture. Full Leather, gilt lettering to spine stamp, gilt spine bands, original endpapers. Good plus with wear to leather at edges spine ends, modest wear to surface with some insect damage and scratches, bookplate to inside cover mostly gone, foxing to pages and page ends darkened.
Price: $300.00