Aphorisms on man /

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Author / Creator:Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
Uniform title:Vermischte unphysiognomische Regeln. English
Imprint:London : Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Churchyard, MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Description:vi, [2], 224 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12411664
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Other authors / contributors:Blake, William, 1757-1827, engraver.
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825, translator, designer.
Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809, bookseller.
Provenance:Copy 1. Armorial bookplate: E. H. Greenly.
Copy 1. Former owner's signature: E. H. Greenly, 1788.
Copy 1. Binding: contemporary mottled calf over boards.
Notes:The engraved frontispiece is by William Blake after Fuseli and is lettered: Blake. Sc. Cf. Keynes, 101.
Translated from German by Henry Fuseli. Cf. Bentley.
"End of vol. I."--Page 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.": pages iii-iv.
"Errata": leaf inserted after page vi.
Keynes, G. Blake, 101
Bentley, G.E. Blake books, 480
English short title catalogue, T137188
Essick, R.N. William Blake's commercial book illustration, XVIII
Easson, R.R. William Blake: book illustrator, volume II, entry XXXII, 1a

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Call Number: PT2392.L2 A3 1788
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