Accession number
PML 78348
Creator
Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
Published
London : Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1788.
Credit line
Purchased on the Harper Fund, 1985.
Notes
Translated from German by Henry Fuseli. Cf. Bentley.
"End of vol. I."--p. 224. No more published. A second volume of "Aphorisms on art" (by Fuseli?) promised in the translator's preface (p. vi) was printed, but the whole impression destroyed by fire. cf. Life and writings of Henry Fuseli, 1831, v. 1, p. 160.
Motto on t.p.: "--è coelo descendit gnōthi seauton. Juv. Sat. IX." [Last two words of motto transliterated from Greek.].
Dedication "To Henry Fuseli, A.M.": p. iii-iv.
The engraved frontispiece is by William Blake after Fuseli and is lettered: Blake. Sc. Cf. Keynes, 101.
"End of vol. I."--p. 224. No more published. A second volume of "Aphorisms on art" (by Fuseli?) promised in the translator's preface (p. vi) was printed, but the whole impression destroyed by fire. cf. Life and writings of Henry Fuseli, 1831, v. 1, p. 160.
Motto on t.p.: "--è coelo descendit gnōthi seauton. Juv. Sat. IX." [Last two words of motto transliterated from Greek.].
Dedication "To Henry Fuseli, A.M.": p. iii-iv.
The engraved frontispiece is by William Blake after Fuseli and is lettered: Blake. Sc. Cf. Keynes, 101.
Description
vi, 224 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Provenance
Inscription on t.p.: "M.A. Arnold 13 September 1789, Lympsfield".
Binding
Modern 3/4 blue cloth and boards.
Classification
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