A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful
Contributors: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797; Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751
Edition: The fifth edition, with an introductory discourse concerning taste, and several other additions / to which is added, A vindication of natural society, after the manner of a late noble writer, by the same author.
Publisher: Printed for R. and and J. Taylor
Published: 1772
Place of publication: Berwick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Aesthetics; Early works to 1800; The Sublime
Other titles: On the sublime and beautiful.; A vindication of natural society.
Notes: Published anonymously. By Edmund Burke.

Running title of first work: On the sublime and beautiful.

The second work, a satirical imitation of the philosophy and style of Viscount Bolingbroke, has separate pagination (viii, 62 p.) and special t.p.: A vindication of natural society, or, A view of the miseries and evils arising to mankind from every species of artificial society : in a letter to Lord **** / by a late noble writer. The fourth edition, with a new preface. ...

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T171020