ALISON, Archibald

CDV original photo mounted on a sheet, with signature on a small card affixed below.

Photo measuring 8,8 x 5,6 cm. Card measures 1,8 x 4,5 cm. Excellent condition. Alison (1792-1867), about 70 years old, sitting in an easy chair with a cane between his fingers and his top hat behind him. Archibald Alison (the 1st baronet), was a Scottish lawyer and historian.

Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PaulbooksProfessional seller

Book number: 256470

Catalogue: Scotland

ALISON, ARCHIBALD:

Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790).

Hildesheim, Olms 1968. 415 S. Oln. Nd. d. Ausg. London 1790. Anglistica & Americana.

Antiquriat Bücheretage - Hagena & SchulteProfessional seller

Book number: 93379EB

Catalogue: Philosophie

ALISON (Archibald):

Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste.

Dublin: Printed for Messrs. F. Byrne, J. Moore, Grueber and M'Allister, W. Jones, and B. White, 1790. FIRST IRISH EDITION. 8vo, pp. xiii [xiv blank, xv drop-title, xvi blank], 384, contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, red leather label; small piece torn from corner of title-page, wormed from outer margin of front paste-down end-paper to B2 (10 leaves), with occasional loss of a letter or two, more worming of lower margin of last six leaves, with, again, loss of a letter or two, outer margin of G8 partially uncut, front joint a little worn, but an attractive copy. Alison bases his theory of taste on the principle of association, holding that in some instances we are powerless to articulate our feelings and that we are thus swept along by our conceptions, unable to guide them. For Alison, the imagination functions in much the same way that sympathy does, and this suggestion proved to be important for the Romantic development of the concept of imagination. Coleridge spoke highly of the work in Biographia Literaria, while in recent years other scholars have begun to re-assess Alison's contribution to the history of aesthetic theory. For example, in Probability and literary form: Philosophical theory and literary practice in the Augustan age (Cambridge University Press, 1984), Douglas Lane Patey notes, "Archibald Alison's influential Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790) develops in particularly interesting detail a theory of reading and composition as associative manipulation of probable signs."

John Price Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 6850

Catalogue: Aesthetics

Keywords: aesthetics philosophy Scottish Enlightenment prose

Alison, Archibald. Abraham Mills, additions and corrections

Essays on the Nature and Pinciples of Taste

New York, Harper & Bros, 1844. First printing of this edition. 0 pp. Hardcover. Very good in brown cloth-covered boards with wear at the spine extremities and tips. Brief foxing throughout. Very Good.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b26022

ALISON ARCHIBALD

Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste [ Complete in 2 Volumes ]

Edinburgh, Printed By George Ramsay and Company for Archibald Constable. 1815, Fourth Edition. Full Calf, 8vo. Complete in 2 volumes. Books measure 22x14.cm. Collation, xxix, 376pp, vi, 447pp. Bound in period mottled calf, flat gilt bands, gilt stamped tooling, leather labels, full marble edges. Calf rubbed on hinge joints, but boards holding, minor abrasion wear. Both bindings in good clean condition. Internally, spotting to endpapers. Pages in very good clean condition. A good clean set, in attractive period bindings. Very Good.

George Jeffery BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 014643

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: archiland alison

Alison, Archibald

Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790)

Olms, 1968. - Neuwertig, verlagsfrisch verpackt. Nach der Ausgabe London 1790. Anglistica & Americana. A Series of Reprints Selectetd by Bernhard Fabian, Edgar Mertner, Karl Schneider and Martin Spevack, Band 26 - Einband: Leineneinband. 750

Celler VersandantiquariatProfessional seller

Book number: 2d17

Keywords: Philosophie

ALISON, THE REV. ARCHIBALD

Essays On The Nature And Principles Of Taste

Edinburgh & London, J .J. G. And G. Robinson & Bell And Bradfute. 1790, First Edition. Hard Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contemporary full calf, leather, rubbed, bumped and a little worn at the spine and corners, internally clean and fresh, early previous owners inscription and contemporary press cutting, very occasional spotting, xiiipp, 415pp. Alison introduces one of the earliest psychological discussions on aesthetics and the nature of beauty. He examines the effects produced on the mind when a variety of emotions are experienced, such as sight, sounds, colours and forms along with fear and distress, in the realms of music, art, poetry and literature. A sound, tidy, first edition copy of this scarce book. Very Good.

Clarendon Books P.B.F.A.Professional seller

Book number: 028857

Archibald Alison

Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste. In Two Volumes

Edinburgh, Bell and Bradfute and Archibald Constable and Co, 1811. Leather. Two wonderful essays from the passionate pen of Alison, these essays being major theoretical works of the Edinburgh enlightenment. Includes: Essay 1: of the nature of the emotions of sublimity and beauty, and Essay 2: of the sublimity and beauty of the material world. Armorial bookplates to front pastedowns. Sir Archibald Alison, first baronet (1792–1867) was a historian and lawyer. Alison declared it his life's work "to oppose the erroneous opinions which, since the French Revolution and in consequence of it, had, as I conceived, overspread the world, in political, economical and social concerns". It was through the gloomy foreboding with which he greeted all suggestion of constitutional change in Britain that he first came to public notice. On seeing that this was what the whigs intended, he made his name with a series of thirteen articles in Blackwood's, from January 1831 to January 1832 which, inevitably, linked parliamentary reform with the French revolution of 1830. Alison elaborated these sombre theses in the ten volumes of his History of Europe during the French Revolution (1833–42). The central failure he identified in the France of the ancien régime, as in present-day Britain, was the ruling class's reluctance to stand up to popular intimidation. Britain might have been spared the fate of France, but had no grounds for confidence in the future: whig ministries were practically treasonable, and 1832 heralded an era of democracy and the descent into anarchy. Despite the heavy political baggage, his work offered the first survey of the revolution in English, and several editions won huge sales on both sides of the Atlantic, with translations into French, German, and even Arabic. DNB In full marbled calf bindings. Externally attractive although a trifle rubbed, joints cracked. Internally, firmly bound. Bright and generally clean aside from some light scattered spotting. Mild off-setting from the text to adjacent pages. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: LTH20-E-9

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Alison Historian Lawyer Biography Historian Edinburgh None

ALISON Sir Archibald

Histoire de l'Europe depuis le commencement de la Révolution Française, en 1789, jusqu'à nos jours. Guerres de la République

Bruxelles, F. Parent, 1855. In-8 relié pleine percaline aubergine de l'éditeur. 7 parties reliées en 3 volumes de 310 + 316 + 288 + 336 + 298 + 297 + 255 pages. Gravures. Dos décolorés pour le reste bon état.

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Book number: 182395

Keywords: EUROPE LIVRES ANCIENS REVOLUTION FRANCAISE

ALISON, SIR ARCHIBALD

History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in Mdcccxv [1815] to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in Mdccclii [1852]. Volume IV Only: June 1844 Through 1852.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860. Hardcover. Volume 4 only in author's four volume series (Spine says Vol VIII but title page has work as Volume IV). In tan calf leather with raised bands and titling on spine in gilt on black blocks. Endpapers and text block edges marbled. Hinges good, with some abrading to the calf at the spine. Volume has been exposed to dampness, interior pages are rippled but with no apparent dampstains. Prev. owner's bookplate at front pastedown. Textblock firm and intact. Includes 147-page extensive index of the events of European history from 1815-1852 for all four volumes of this series. A handsome, though faultily labeled, volume in this important work on the history of Europe. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 542, 147, (2, ads) pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

Bluebird BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 73690

Keywords: >>History >>European History

ALISON ARCHIBALD

History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in MDCCLXXXIX to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCCXV. [ Complete in 20 Volumes. Plus Atlas ]

Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood & Sons. 1848, Seventh Edition. Quarter Calf, 8vo. Complete in 20 volumes, plus atlas with 108 plans, atlas printed 1855. Bound in modern quater red leather, marble boards, gilt lines, flat gilt bands, gilt lettering. All bindings in very good clean firm condition. Internally, spotting to frontis. Pages clean. Atlas bound in original publishers cloth, with gilt lettering. Spine rebacked, minor wear and fading to cloth. Binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, 2 previous owners names, dated 1867 & 1909. Maps in very good clean condition. A very nice set. F. Very Good.

George Jeffery BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 014648

Catalogue: History

Keywords: french revolution

Alison, Archibald.

History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815. (Abridged Edition).

New York: J. Winchester, New World Press, 1843. 1843. - Octavo, marbled boards backed with blue calf, titled & decorated in gilt on the spine. The edges & endpapers are marbled. The leather is rubbed & the boards are lightly rubbed with the paper chipped at the corners. xxiv & 494 pages. There is scattered foxing & light staining throughout & the pages are somewhat rippled. The top corners of pages 331-348 are creased & a few page corners are lightly bumped. Good.

From the library of Clarence Livingston with his signature on the title page.

"Abridged from the Last London Edition: for the Use of General Readers, Colleges, Academies, and Other Seminaries of Learning: by Edward S. Gould. Good .

Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 34280

Catalogue: History

Keywords: HISTORY; HISTORY OF EUROPE From the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815; NAPOLEONIC WARS; NAPOLEON; ARCHIBALD ALISON; ABRIDGED EDITION; EDWARD S. GOULD; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.

Alison, Sir Archibald.

History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in MDCCLXXXIX to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCCXV Vol IV

London, William Blackwood, 1854. Reprint. Hardcover. 12mo. mauve decorated cover, tanned to edges and marked. ( grubby) sp missingsome loss at top. Cover loose and insect damage to inside edges of pages. ffep and 1 plate loose. Poor.

The Victoria BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 90006998

Keywords: HISTORY

Alison, Sir Archibald.

History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in MDCCLXXXIX to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCCXV Vol IX

London, William Blackwood, 1854. Reprint. Hardcover. 12mo. mauve decorated cover, tanned to edges and marked. Sp faded and tanned ( grubby) chipped btm and torn w some loss at top. Cover starting to loosen Poor.

The Victoria BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 90006999

Keywords: HISTORY