A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. The Eighth Edition. With an Introductory Discourse concerning Taste, and several other Additions. London: J. Dodsley, 1776. .

BURKE, Edmund

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8vo, ix, [vii], 342 pp., contemporary speckled calf with red morocco label, slight wear at top of spine, early ownership inscription on front free endpaper, light underlining in red crayon on twenty pages, otherwise in nice condition. Originally published in 1757. Burke's central argument is that our enjoyment of beauty comes from obscurity and suggestiveness rather than from intellectual clarity, and that the sublime sparks in us a pleasurable form of terror. Todd, A Bibliography of Edmund Burke, No 5h. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1651675887796

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