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SMITH, WILLIAM: Dionysius Longinus On The Sublime: Translated from the Greek, with Notes and Observations, and some account of the life, writings and character of the author. By William Smith, now Dean of Chester. Fourth edition corrected and improved. London: Printed for E.Johnson. 1770 4th edition. Size 5.25 x 8.25 inches. In full calf leather binding with gilt to maroon morocco title label on spine. 186pp. With b/w engraved frontis. In very good condition in good binding. Spine slightly rubbed with split to front edge. Boards rubbed with small marks. Edges and corners rubbed. Slight browning to endpapers. Neat inscription to front endpaper, dated 1824. Neat inscription to top of main title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. On the Sublime is both a treatise on aesthetics and a work of literary criticism. It is written in an epistolary form and is a compendium of literary exemplars, with about 50 authors spanning 1,000 years mentioned or quoted. Along with the expected examples from Homer and other figures of Greek culture, Longinus refers to a passage from Genesis, which is quite unusual for the 1st century. Price:
65.00 GBP
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