Author: THOMSON (William):
Title: An Enquiry into the Elementary Principles of Beauty. In the Works of Nature and Art. To which is prefixed, An Introductory Discourse on Taste.
Description: London: Printed for J. Johnson..., 1798. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 273 x 212 mms., pp. [iv], [iii] - xv [xvi blank], xx, 214 [215 Errata. 216 blank], 13 engraved plates, followed by another of errata, contemporary calf (rubbed and worn), crudely rebacked with canvas, affecting inner margin of title-page and following leaf. The Irish author and portrait painter William Thomson (1730 - 117988), also "Blarney Thomson," was trained as an artist in London. A memoir of his life by W.W. Dakins, dated May 1799, was added to his book which was evidently published in that year. See the short biography in The Dictionary of Irish Biography, online at https://www.dib.ie/biography/thompson-thomson-william-a8533.

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