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BEATTIE (JAMES): Essays: On Poetry and Music, as they affect the mind; On Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition; On the Utility of Classical Learning. The Third Edition, Corrected.
London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly..., 1779. 8vo, pp. [viii], 515 [516 - 517 blank, 518 "Corrections"], with half-title following Contents, engraved portrait of Socrates as frontispiece, contemporary polished calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, red leather label; corners worn, joints slightly cracked (but firm), top and base of spine very slightly chipped, but generally a very good copy, with the armorial bookplate of Richard Cox, Quarley, Hampshire, the army agent on the front paste-down end-paper. Richard Cox (1718 - 1803), the army agent, was a friend of, among others, Charles Burney and David Garrick, who called him, "my dear old Friend the Richard of all Richards." These particular essays were first published in 1776 with Beattie's An Essay on Truth and thereafter reprinted in a variety of forms and combinations. They are probably Beattie's most important essays and contain a number of ideas and suggestions that the Romantic poets, particularly Wordsworth, were to adopt almost in their entirety. It was also these essays, as well as Beattie's poetry, that led Beattie, with Robert Burns and George Thomson, to collaborate on a collection of Scots songs and airs. Burns described the first essay in the above volume as a "treasure." Alston, III 320,
Offered for GBP 330.00 = appr. US$ 539.88 by: John Price Antiquarian Books - Book number: 6223
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