A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

The Right Hon. Edmund Burke

Published by C. & C. Whittingham for Thomas Tegg, Bowdery and Kirby, and R Griffin and Co., Chiswick, 1825

About this Item

A scarce edition of Edmund Burke's important treatise on aesthetics, this edition published as part of Whittingham's Cabinet Library, bound in the original boards. Bound in the publisher's original paper-covered boards.An important essay on aesthetics by Edmund Burke.Published as part of Whittingham's Cabinet Library. The essay was first published in 1757.This treatise was the first complete philosophical work separating and defining the beautiful and the sublime. In the essay Burke holds a preference for the Sublime, rather than Beautiful, an important step which heralded the transition from the Neoclassical era to the Romantic.This was Burke's only purely philosophical work, as an economist and Whig M.P.This copy contains a preface to the second edition and an additional illustrated title page, as called for in a copy of this edition held in the British Library, as stated on Jisc. Collated, complete. Bound in the publisher's original paper-covered boards.Externally, sound, with some light chipping to the backstrip and cracks to the joints. A little darkening to backstrip and boards, with a vertical crack to backstrip. Front hinge is tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd mark. A little loss to title page, not affecting text. Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
• Publisher: C. & C. Whittingham for Thomas Tegg, Bowdery and Kirby, and R Griffin and Co., Chiswick
• Publication Date: 1825
• Binding: Hardback
• Illustrator: None
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: book