[Harris's Works, in Four Volumes]: Hermes; or, A Philosophical Inqviry Concerning Vniversal Grammar; Three Treatises: The First Concerning Art, The Second Concerning Music, Painting, and Poetry, The Third Concerning Happiness; Philosophical Arrangements;…

Full leather, red and green morocco spine label, gilt titles and decorations, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispieces by Basire and Isaac Taylor. The author was a politician and grammarian greatly influenced by the works of Aristotle, and best known for his 1751 work Hermes, a philosophical examination of universal grammar. These works comprise traditional philosophical teachings on formal logic, first principles, physics, metaphysics, the arts, emotion, etc.