A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, with an Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste, and Several Other Additions by Burke, Edmund - 1807

London: Printed By J. Wright, St. John's Square, Clerkewell, for F. And C. Rivington; J. Walker; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe Cutbell and Martin; Otridge and Son; Ogilvy and Son; Longman, Hunt, Rees, and Orme; Cadell and Davies; Lackington, Allen, and Co.; J. Nunn, 1807. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo (4" x 6.5"). Small 8vo. Full marbled calf, professionally rebacked with modern marbled calf spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. Brown calf spine label, gilt lettering and decoration to compartments, gilt panels and frame decoration to boards. Inner edge gilt pointille. [6], 219 p.p. B&W frontis. portrait of Edmund Burke. Some wear to calf, especially at corners and edges. Darkening to top edge of textblock. Ink ownership inscription to head of title page. Some light intermittent foxing and smudging, but overall text is clean and free of markings. Binding is sound. A philosophical treatise on aesthetics, originally published in 1757, that was the first complete exposition to separate beauty and the sublime as rational categories.