Les Beaux Arts Reduits a Un Même Principe by Ab. Charles Batteux - 1746

E-148: Durand,. Very Good. 1746. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Durand, Paris, France. 1746. Xiii, 291 pgs. Illustrated with a title vignette and a frontispiece and vignettes by Eisen after Delafosse. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in brown leather with raised bands and gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (spine crown is chipped and worn, boards starting along the crown of the spine). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle (1746) by Charles Batteux was arguably the most influential work on aesthetics published in the eighteenth century. It influenced every major aesthetician in the second half of the century: Diderot, Herder, Hume, Kant, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and others either adopted his views or reacted against them. It is the work generally credited with establishing the modern system of the arts: poetry, painting, music, sculpture and dance. Batteux's book is also an invaluable aid to the interpretation of the arts of eighteenth century. E-148; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 291 pages .