Search Results: Titles starting with T from MOSHER BOOKS

Two volumes. The Third Edition Revised and Corrected. London: Printed for John Nourse and Paul Vaillant, 1772 / 1771. ________ 8vo (about 8 1/8" x 5 1/4"); contemporaneous full calf, rebacked with original spines and red labels skillfully placed on top of rebacking. ________ Pagination: frontispiece, (iv), 377, (19) pp. with one plate; frontispiece, (xx), 442, (28), (1) pp. ________ This influential book (Three Treatises) was the first by James Harris who was a member of the London Art Society and a friend of Joshua Reynolds. The second title, Hermes, is among the most important and distinctive influences on the philosophy of language and the development of a universal grammar in the Enlightenment which Harris defines as: "that grammar which without regarding the several idioms of particular languages only respects those principles that are essential to them all" (Hermes, Bk I, Ch. 2). Hermes was first published in 1751 and was his most successful book. The 1771 edition… Read More