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The Sociable Humanist The Life and Works of James Harris 1709 - 1780 Provincial and Metropolitan Culture in Eighteenth Century England
by Probyn, Clive T
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0198185634
- ISBN 13
- 9780198185635
- Seller
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York , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford, 1991. 371pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate to the flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. A biography of James Harris, the author of treatises on aesthetic theory, MP, organizer of a music festival in Salisbury, secretary to the Queen and friend of Dr Johnson, Handel, Fielding, J C Bach and Dr Charles Burney, whom he assisted in compiling the General History of Music. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Hessay Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6831
- Title
- The Sociable Humanist The Life and Works of James Harris 1709 - 1780 Provincial and Metropolitan Culture in Eighteenth Century England
- Author
- Probyn, Clive T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0198185634
- ISBN 13
- 9780198185635
- Publisher
- Oxford
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Salisbury, Intellectual Life, Eighteenth Century, History, Biography, Salisbury
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