A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
by Edmund Burke
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke
Rambler Press, Warsaw 2023
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. It was the first complete philosophical exposition for separating the beautiful and the sublime into their own respective rational categories. It attracted the attention of prominent thinkers such as Denis Diderot and Immanuel Kant.
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Octavo. 312 pp, set in Brunel Text Roman No 2 and printed on Century Laid, cotton paper with watermarks in an edition of 25 copies (this is no 1). Finely bound in black morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, gilt top edge.
Attractively bound by hand.
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Synopsis
First published World Classics paperback 1990. Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-173).
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- Title
- A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
- Author
- Edmund Burke
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- Attractively bound by hand.
- Book Condition
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rambler Press
- Place of Publication
- Warsaw
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- Keywords
- Burke, Conservatism, bindingbyhand
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- Political Philosophy;
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