Main entry:

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671-1713.

Title & Author:

Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times : in three volumes / by the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury.

Edition:

The second edition corrected.

Publication:

[London : Printed by John Derby], 1714-[1715].

Description:

3 v. : ill., port. (engravings) ; 22 cm. (8vo)

Notes:
Vol. 1: [4], iv, [2], 364 p., [1] leaf of plates (port.); v. 2: 176, [2], 181-443, [3] p.; v. 3: [4], 391, [55] p.
Initial blank in v. 1; final blank in v. 2.
Imprint from colophon in v. 3, dated 1715. T.p. to each volume dated 1714.
Includes index.
A few copies of this edition include an additional essay by the same author in v. 3 (p. 393-411) i.e. his Letter concerning the art, or science of design. See Kerry Downes, "The publication of Shaftesbury's 'Letter concerning design'" in Architectural History, v. 27 (1984), p. 519-523.
V. 1. A letter concerning Enthusiasm ; 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.
ESTC, t066620

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "Le renouveau palladien: la villa et les jardins de Lord Burlington à Chiswick = The Palladian revival: Lord Burlington, his villa and garden at Chiswick", Centre canadien d'architecture, July 19-Sept. 25, 1994; Heinz Architectural Center, Oct. 29, 1994-Jan. 9, 1995; Royal Academy of Arts, Feb. 2-Apr. 2, 1995.

Subject:

Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
Ethics (philosophy)
Connoisseurship.

Form/genre:

Essays.
Emblems (allegorical pictures)

Holdings:

Location: Library cage 150450
Call No.: B1385.A2 1714
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library cage 150449
Call No.: B1385.A2 1714
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library cage 150448
Call No.: B1385.A2 1714
Copy: v. 3
Status: Available