Accession number
PML 65728
Creator
Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
Published
London : Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1794.
Credit line
Gift; Miss Louise Crane; 1974.
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.
Frontispiece in third state (see Essick).
"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.
Frontispiece in third state (see Essick).
Description
viii, 224 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Provenance
H. Buxton Forman (bookplate); Louise Crane.
Binding
Marbled boards
Classification
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