by LAMOTTE, Charles
LAMOTTE, Charles. AN ESSAY UPON POETRY AND PAINTING, WITH RELATION TO THE SACRED AND PROFANE HISTORY. London: F. Fayram and J. Leake, 1730. 12mo. Later quarter-calf, marbled boar (ii), 202 pages. First edition. [Schimmelman, Books on the Arts, 104]. A collection of essays on the literary and visual arts, Lamotte offers an excellent reflection on English aesthetic sensitivities for his time. The bo was in early America. Copies were recorded by John Mercer (Virginia) and the Redwood Library and it was advertised by a Philadelphia bookseller in 1790. Very good. (37344).
(Inventory #: 37344)