Dialogues on the uses of foreign travel; considered as a part of an English gentleman's education: between Lord Shaftesbury and Mr. Locke. By the editor of Moral and Political Dialogues.
London: printed by W.B. for A. Millar, ... . and W. Thurlbourn and J. Woodyer, in Cambridge, 1764.
Price: $450.00
About the item
First edition. Title page printed in red and black. [iv], 201pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound. Text clean and crisp. Contemporary mss. notes on rear endpaper. Simmons pp. 10-19; CBEL II 1780.
Item #28072
An imaginary conversation in the style Hurd made popular with his previous work, Moral and Political Dialogues (L., 1759. Hurd (1720-1808) was a literary critic and the editor of the works of William Warburton, his friend and patron, as well as the works of Jeremy Taylor and Abraham Cowley. He eventually was made Bishop of Worcester.
In the rear of the book is a curious remark in a contemporary hand, which begins: " The result of this debate seems to me whether you shall polish the statue before you have perfected it, or after ... "
