Dissertations Moral and Critical
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1783.
First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Item #045193
Full contemporary calf recently re-spined with endpapers refreshed. Wear at edges, heavy wear at corners, but sound and attractive overall; old monogram to half title. Scattered foxing, mostly to early pages, faint dampstain in the gutter to a few pages else a clean, wide margined copy. x, (vi), 655pp.
Though a poet early on, his Essay on Truth made a name for him as a proponent of the common sense school of the Scottish Enlightenment and successfully irritated both Hume and Kant. The sections here entitled on The Theory of Language and On Fable and Romance were especially admired. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Philosophy; Inventory No: 045193.
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