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Description
[AESTHETICS]
ANDRE (Yves Marie)
Essay on Beauty: New edition expanded to include six treatises: On the Modus, on Decorum, on the Graces, on the Love of Beauty, on Disinterested Love
Paris: Published by L. Etienne Ganeau. 1743.
2 vols. in-12°. Full marbled light brown sheepskin binding. Smooth spine, decorated with gilt metal tools and fleurons. A small defect to the cap of Volume I.
Volume I: VIII, 2 unnumbered pages, 250 pages.
Volume II: 367 pages.
One of the first genuine treatises on aesthetics written in French, first published in 1741, the work was reprinted three times during the author’s lifetime and twice after his death.
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10/15/2026 at 1:00 PM
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