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Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times.

Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury 1671-1713.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

10/1321

Author

Edition

2nd. ed., corrected.

Imprint

[London]:: 1714 [-1715], printed in the year,

Physical Description

3 v. illus., port. 20 cm.

General Note

Collective titlepage in volume 1.
Each volume has a separate titlepage, with the imprint: "Printed in the year 1714".
Printer's name from colophon in volume 3, which is dated 1715.

Contents

A letter concerning enthusiam. Sensus communis: an essay on the freedom of wit and humour. Soliloquy; or, advice to an author.--v.2. An inquiry concerning virtue and merit. The moralists: a philosophical rhapsody.--v.3. Miscellaneous reflections on the preceding treatises, and other critical subjects. A notion of the tablature; or, Judgment of Hercules.

References

ESTC, T66620

Subject

Characters and characteristics.
Ethics.

Contributors

Simon Gribelin, 1662-1733, engraver
Henry Trench, c. 1685-1726, illustrator
John Closterman, 1660-1711, artist