Midas; Or, A Serious Inquiry Concerning Taste And Genius; Including A Proposal For The Certain Advancement Of The Elegant Arts. To Which Is Added, By Way Of Illustration, A Fragment Of Ancient History. By Anthony Fisgrave, Ll. D.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/2460

Anthony Fisgrave

London:: Printed for John Murray, 32, Fleet Street; And A. Constable And Co. Edinburgh., 1808.

xvi, 208 p.; 170 mm. (Octavo.)

[T.p.] - An Epistle, Prefatory And Dedicatory, To A Great Connoisseur - [Text]; [colophon].

The printer is named on the title-page verso and in the colophon: 'C. Whittingham, Printer, (103) Goswell Street.'

A preliminary leaf is inscribed in ink, 'Bequest of Sr Aug Callcott.'

19th-century quarter green morocco, red cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Fisgrave's Midas.' and 'R.A.'

Aesthetics - Taste (aesthetics) - Genius (creative ability) - Art - Arts
Essays - Great Britain - 19th century

John Murray, publisher
Charles Whittingham, printer
Sir Augustus Wall Callcott RA, previous owner, donor
Archibald Constable and Company (Edinburgh), publisher