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001 $ 15/6525
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220113135049.1
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a James Moor
245 1 0 $a Essays; read to a literary society; at their weekly meetings, within the college, at Glasgow : I. On the influence of philosophy upon the fine arts. II. On the composition of the picture described in the dialogue of Cebes. III. On historical composition. Exemplaria Graeca

260 # # $a Glasgow $b Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis $c M.DCC.LIX $c [1759]
300 # # $a [6], 32, [2], 33-178, [2] p. $c 15.5 cm.
500 # # $a "To the Right Honourable, James, Earl of Errol, Lord High Constable of Scotland, these essays, on the taste of some of the chief Greek writers; whose works his lordship has the pleasure of admiring in the original, having, at a very early time of life, made, in that language, a very uncommon progress; are, with every sentiment, of respect, duty, and gratitude, inscribed by Ja. Moor." [p. [2]].
500 # # $a With an errata leaf at the end.
505 0 # $a An essay on the influence of philosophy upon the fine arts. Read, February VIII. MDCCLV -- An essay on the composition of the picture described in the dialogue of Cebes. Read, March I. MDCCLIV -- An essay on historical composition. Read, February VI. MDCCLII
510 4 # $a ESTC $c T62909
561 # # $a Inscribed in ink on front free endpaper 'Bequest of Sir A. W. Callcott'
561 # # $a The front pastedown carries a 20th century Royal Academy bookplate
653 # # $a Art and philosophy
653 # # $a Aesthetics
653 # # $a Historiography
700 1 # $a Robert Foulis $e printer
700 1 # $a Andrew Foulis $e printer
700 1 # $a Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, R.A. $e donor
700 1 # $a James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll $e dedicatee
710 2 # $a Foulis Press (Glasgow) $e printer