HOME, Henry, Lord Kames.

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Elements of Criticism. First edition of Kames's large and systematic philosophical and aesthetic treatise, rare on the market. This work is the most important result of the Scottish aesthetic movement, and "the most comprehensive work on aesthetics of the 18th century since Du Bos' Réflexions critiques of 1719" (translated from Dobai, Die Kunstliteratur des Klassizismus und der Romantik in England II, p. 115). Kames's Elements of Criticsm (1762) "became a textbook in rhetoric and belles-lettres for a century, not least in America" (The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century Philosophers). Thomas Jefferson had a copy of the third edition in his library (Sowerby 4699.)

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