Three Treatises. The First Concerning Art. The Second Concerning Music, Painting and Poetry. The Third Concerning Happiness

by James Harris

$600 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Bound to style in contemporary calf and marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt First edition of a classic work of mid-18th century English philosophy. James Harris was a famed philosophical grammarian. Interested in the Greek and Latin classics, Harris sought out manuscripts and printed editions that influenced his writings as evident in the

• Binding: Leather

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