[BEATTIE, James.]

FORBES, Sir William. An account of the life and writings of James Beattie, LL.D. Late Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen. Including many of his original letters. New York and Philadelphia, Isaac Riley and Co. and William F. McLaughlin, 1806.

8vo, pp. viii, [1], 10-559, [1 blank]; some occasional staining and foxing, but a very good copy in contemporary calf, fairly rubbed, spine gilt with red morocco label; contemporary ownership inscription to title-page of Thomas Hoge.

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First American edition. James Beattie was author of The Essay on Truth (1770) and Elements of Moral Science (1790-93), in which he argued against the institution of slavery, but he was also a poet, known principally for The Minstrel (1771-74). This work prints over two hundred letters, the recipients including the poets Thomas Gray and William Cowper, and on numerous occasions the bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu, to whom Beattie dedicated some of his poems.

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[BEATTIE, James.]

FORBES, Sir William. An account of the life and writings of James Beattie, LL.D. Late Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen. Including many of his original letters. New York and Philadelphia, Isaac Riley and Co. and William F. McLaughlin, 1806.