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• The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
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• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Laokoon ; oder, Über die grenzen der malerei und poesie. Erster teil. (L. Ehlermann, 1894), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Veit Valentin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Einschränkung der schönen Künste auf einen einzigen Grundsatz, aus dem französischen übersetzt, und mit einem anhange einiger eignen abhandlungen versehen. (In der Weidmannischen handlung, 1751), by Charles Batteux and Johann Adolf Schlegel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful. (Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1764), by Edmund Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste (Printed by J. Reeves for the author and sold by him at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1753), by William Hogarth and John Reeves (page images at HathiTrust)
• The analysis of beauty (Done at the Silver lotus shop, 1909), by William Hogarth and William Chesebrough Ostrander (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful; with an introductory discourse concerning taste. (Harper, 1844), by Edmund Burke and Abraham Mills (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeine Theorie der schönen Künste in einzeln : nach alphabetischer Ordnung der Kunstwörter auf einander folgenden, Artikeln abgehandelt (In der Weidmannschen Buchhandlung, 1792), by Johann Georg Sulzer and Christian Friedrich von Blankenburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laelius and Hortensia; or, thoughts on the nature and objects of taste and genius, in a series of letters to two friends. (Printed for J. Balfour and T. Cadell, London, 1782), by John Stedman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laokoon, and How the ancients represented death (G. Bell and sons, 1914), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Helen Zimmern, and Edward Calvert Beasley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Génie de l'architecture (L'auteur [et] chez B. Morin, 1780), by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks: with Instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay On grace in works of art. (Printed for A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1767), by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Henry Fuseli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle on the art of poetry : an amplified version with supplementary illustrations (Cornell University Press, 1947), by Aristotle and Lane Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• A commentary illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle (Printed for John Stockdale, 1792), by Aristotle and Henry James Pye (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetics of Aristotle (Hodder and Stoughton, 1911), by Aristotle and D. S. Margoliouth (page images at HathiTrust)
• El arte poética de Aristóteles en castellano. (Impr. de don Benito Cano, 1798), by Aristotle and Joseph Goya y Muniain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lezzione (Appresso Giorgio Marescotti, 1581), by Francesco de Vieri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle On the art of poetry (Clarendon Press ;, 1920), by Aristotle, Gilbert Murray, and Ingram Bywater (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle's treatise on poetry (Sold by Payne and son; [etc., etc.,], 1789), by Aristotle and Thomas Twining (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle on the art of poetry; an amplified version with supplementary illustrations for students of English (Ginn and Co., 1913), by Aristotle and Lane Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kalligone. (J. F. Hartknoch, 1800), by Johann Gottfried Herder (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on taste (1759) : together with observations concerning the imitative nature of poetry (Gainesville, Fla. : Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1963., 1963), by Alexander Gerard (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on taste : to which is now added part fourth, of the standard of taste, with observations concerning the imitative nature of poetry. (J. Bell, and W. Creech; [etc., etc. ], 1780), by Alexander Gerard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessing's Laokoon (The Clarendon Press, 1892), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Lewis Edward Upcott, and Albert Hamann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetics of Aristotle (Macmillan ;, 1898), by Aristotle and S. H. Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laokoon : oder über die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie : mit beiläufigen Erläuterungen verschiedener Puncte der alten Kunstgeschichte (G. J. Göschen, 1870), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessing's Laokoon (Clarendon Press, 1901), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Lewis Edward Upcott, and A. Hamann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lessing's Laokoon (The Clarendon press, 1878), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Lewis Edward Upcott, and A. Hamann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon. An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art. (Little, Brown, and Company, 1910), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Ellen Frothingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lehrbuch der Kritik des Geschmacks, mit beständiger Rücksicht auf die kantische Kritik der ästhetischen Urtheilskraft ausgearbeitet. (J.G. Müller, 1795), by Christian Wilhelm Snell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflexiones sobre el buen gusto en las ciencias, y en las artes. (Impr. de A. de Sancha, 1782), by Lodovico Antonio Muratori and Juan Sempere y Guarinos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Propyläen. (in der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1798), by Heinrich Meyer and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessing's Laokoon : für den weiteren Kreis der Gebildeten und die oberste Stufe höherer Lehranstalten (Haude und Spener, 1890), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Wilhelm Cosack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotelis Ars poëtica : ad fidem potissimum codicis antiquissimi Ac (Parisiensis 1741) (Erich Koschny, 1875), by Aristotle and Friedrich Ueberweg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristoteles' Poetik (Veit, 1897), by Aristotle, Alfred Berger, and Theodor Gomperz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle, On the art of poetry : a revised text, with critical introduction, translation, and commentary by Ingram Bywater. (Clarendon Press, 1909), by Aristotle and Ingram Bywater (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the limits of descriptive writing apropos of Lessing's Laocoon, by Frank Egbert Bryant ... (The Ann Arbor press, 1906), by Frank Egbert Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful. (Printed for R. and J. Dodsley ..., 1757), by Edmund Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lo bello y lo sublime : ensayo de estética y moral (Espasa-Calpe, 1919), by Immanuel Kant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen (Insel-Verlag, 1913), by Immanuel Kant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Laokoon, oder Über die grenzen der malerei und poesie ... Mit beilaüfigen erläuterungen verschiedener punkte der alten kunstgeschichte (G. J. Göschen'sche verlagsbuchhandlung, 1893), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Karl Goedeke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poėtika : perevod, vvedenie i primechanii͡a N.I. Novosadskogo. (Academia, 1927), by Aristotle and N. I. Novosadskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Meditationes philosophicae de Nunullis ad poema pertinentibus. 1735. ([Vecchi], 1900), by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten and Benedetto Croce (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the beautiful (J.M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus and Thomas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plotinus on the beautiful : being the sixth treatise of the first Ennead (The Shakespeare Head Press, 1914), by Plotinus and Stephen Mackenna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Laocoon. An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art. (Roberts Brothers, 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Ellen Frothingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poétique d'Aristote (Librairie philosophique de Ladrange : A. Durand, 1858), by Aristotle and J. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetics of Aristotle (Macmillan, 1902), by Aristotle and S. H. Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle on the art of poetry : an amplified version with supplementary illustrations (Cornell University Press, 1947), by Aristotle and Lane Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatise on poetry. (Printed by L. Hansard & Son, 1812), by Aristotle, Daniel Twining, and Thomas Twining (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen. (B.G. Teubner, 1875), by Friedrich Schiller and Arthur Jung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected prose works (G. Bell, 1889), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Edward Bell, Helen Zimmern, and Edward Calwert Beasley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotelis de Arte poetica liber (Lipsiae : In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1907., 1907), by Aristotle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aristotle on the art of poetry : an amplified version with supplementary illustrations (Cornell University Paperbacks, 1913), by Aristotle and Lane Cooper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Peri poietikis. On the art of poetry: a rev. text (Clarendon Press, 1909), by Aristotle and Ingram Bywater (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on taste (Printed for A. Millar, A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1759), by Alexander Gerard, Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Jean Le Rond d' Alembert, and Voltaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clio: or, A discourse on taste ... (Printed for T. Davies, 1769), by James Ussher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the nature and principles of taste. (Printed by J. J. G. and G. Robinson, London; and Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1790), by Archibald Alison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations moral and critical. On memory and imagination. On dreaming. The theory of language. On fable and romance. On the attachments of kindred. Illustrations on sublimity. (Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, and W. Creech at Edinburgh, 1783), by James Beattie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literarische Zusätze zu Johann Georg Sulzers Allgemeiner Theorie der schönen Künste (1796-1798) (Athenäum[-Verlag], 1972), by Christian Friedrich von Blankenburg and Johann Georg Sulzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotelous Peri poiētikēs = Aristotelis De arte poetica liber. (S. Hirzelium, 1885), by Aristotle and Johannes Vahlen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch der Aesthetik, oder, Grundsätze zur Bearbeitung und Beurtheilung der Werke einer jeden schönen Kunst, als der Poesie, Malerei, Bildhauerkunst, Musik, Mimik, Baukunst, Gartenkunst ic. ic., für Künstler und Kunstliebhaber (Justus Perthes, 1797), by Johann Heinrich Gottlieb Heusinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful : With an introductory discourse concerning taste, and several other additions (G & W.B. Whittaker;, 1821), by Edmund Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful. With an introductory discourse concerning taste (G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1829), by Edmund Burke and Abraham Mills (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über frühe Bildung des Geschmacks (Bei Justus Friedrich Krieger dem ältern, 1782), by Christian Wilhelm Snell and Justus Friedrich Krieger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful : with an introductory discourse concerning taste, and several other additions (Printed by D. Buchanan, 1803), by Edmund Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuch über den Geschmack und die Ursachen seiner Verschiedenheit (Bey Christian Friedrich Voss und Sohn, 1790), by Marcus Herz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die Dichtkunst. (F. Meiner, 1921), by Aristotle and A. Gudeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winckelmann's Werke (Walther, 1808), by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Johannes Karl Hartwig Schulze, Heinrich Meyer, C. L. Fernow, and Karl Gottfried Siebelis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio sulla filosofia delle lingue. (Dalla tipografia della Società Lett., 1800), by Melchiorre Cesarotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anfangsgründe aller schönen Wissenschaften. (C. H. Hemmerde, 1754), by Georg Friedrich Meier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessing's Laokoon (Clarendon Press, 1892), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Lewis Edward Upcott, and Albert Hamann (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'art de voir dans les beaux-arts, traduit de l'italien de Milizia : suivi des institutions propres à les faire fleurir en France, et d'un état des objets d'arts dont ses musées ont été enrichis par la guerre de la liberté (Chez Bernard ... , 1797), by Francesco Milizia and François René Jean Pommereul (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the nature and principles of taste (Harper & Brothers, 1850), by Archibald Alison and Abraham Mills (page images at HathiTrust)
• La belleza ideal como objeto de las artes de imitación (La España Editorial, 1900), by Esteban de Arteaga (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aristotelis De poetica liber (E typographeo Clarendoniano, 1760), by Aristotle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotelis De poetica liber, textu gulstoniano (Typis academicis exudebat J. Archdeacon, prostant venales apud J. & J. Merrill [etc.], 1785), by Aristotle, Thomas Gray, and William Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeine Theorie der schönen Kun̈ste in einzeln : nach alphabetischer Ordnung der Kunstwörter auf einander folgenden, Artikeln abgehandelt (Bey M.G. Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1786), by Johann Georg Sulzer, Daniel Chodowiecki, Johann Georg Penzel, Johann Philipp Kirnberger, J. A. P. Schulz, Christian Friedrich von Blankenburg, and Weidmanns Erben und Reich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetic of Aristotle (Printed for John Stockdale, 1788), by Aristotle and Henry James Pye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Friedrich Justus Riedel und seine Ästhetik. (R. Trenkel, 1907), by Kazimierz Filip Wize (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on taste : to which are annexed three dissertations on the same subject by M. De Voltaire, M. d'Alembert, and M. de Montesquieu. (Printed for A. Millar, A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1764), by Alexander Gerard, Voltaire, Jean Le Rond d' Alembert, and Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue : in two treatises. (Printed for J. Darby ... [and 8 others], 1726), by Francis Hutcheson and Logan Pearsall Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the picturesque, as compared with the sublime and the beautiful : and, on the use of studying pictures, for the purpose of improving real landscape (Printed for J. Robson ..., 1796), by Uvedale Price and James Robson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les beaux arts reduits à un même principe ... (Chez Durand, 1747), by Charles Batteux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessing's Laokoon. (Haude und Spener, 1869), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Wilhelm Cosak (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de sentir et de juger en materie de gout ...: tome premier [-second] (chez Pissot ..., 1762), by Seran de La Tour, Prault, and Noël-Jacques Pissot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotelis De poetica liber et Rhetorica ad Alexandrum (sumtibus et typis Car. Tauchnitii, 1831), by Aristotle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sämmtliche Werke. (J. G. Cotta, 1827), by Johann Gottfried Herder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die dichtkunst. (L. Heinmann, 1869), by Aristotle and Friedrich Ueberweg (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue. (Printed for R. Ware [etc.], 1753), by Francis Hutcheson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon (G. Routledge & sons, limited;, 1905), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Robert Phillimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur le beau : augmentée de six discours : sur le modus, sur le decorum, sur les graces, sur l'amour du beau, sur l'amour désintéressé (Chez L. Etienne Ganeau ..., 1770), by Yves Marie André and Guillaume-Germain Guyot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotelis De poetica liber (e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1780), by Aristotle, Theodore Goulston, and Thomas Winstanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful. (Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1761), by Edmund Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kleine Schriften (In der Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1795), by Johann Jacob Engel (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'esprit des beaux arts. (Chez C.J. Baptiste Bauche fils, libraire, à l'Image Ste Genevieve, Quay des Augstins, 1753), by Pierre Estève, Laurent-Charles d' Houry, Jean-Baptiste-Claude Bauche, and Pierre-Alexandre Aveline (page images at HathiTrust)
• The analysis of beauty, written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste. (Printed for R. Scholey by T. Davison, 1810), by William Hogarth, Thomas Davison, and Robert Scholey (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the beauties of painting; and into the merits of the most celebrated painters, ancient and modern. (Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall., 1769), by Daniel Webb and James Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anfangsgründe aller schönen Wissenschaften. (Verlegts Carl Hermann Hemmerde, 1748), by Georg Friedrich Meier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoonte di Lessing. (Dalla Stamperia di Angelo Maria Sormani, 1832), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur le beau. Augm. de six discours, sur le modus, sur le decorum, sur les graces, sur l'amour du beau, sur l'amour désintéressé (A. Delalain, 1824), by Yves Marie André (page images at HathiTrust)
• Salons, tome 1-[3] (Brière, 1821), by Denis Diderot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dell' arte di vedere nelle belle arti del disegno : secondo i principii di Sulzer e di Mengs (Della tipografia di Alvisopli, 1823), by Francesco Milizia, Johann Georg Sulzer, and Anton Raphael Mengs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sämmtliche Werke. (J.G. Cotta, 1827), by Johann Gottfried Herder, Wilhelm Gottfried von Herder, Christian Gottlob Heyne, and Johann Georg Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful (George Bell, 1889), by Edmund Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle's treatise on rhetoric (Henry G. Bohn, 1850), by Aristotle, Theodore Alois Buckley, and Thomas Hobbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle's treatise on rhetoric (H. G. Bohn, 1851), by Aristotle, Theodore Alois Buckley, Thomas Hobbes, and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kritik der Urteilskraft. (Meiner, 1913), by Immanuel Kant and Karl Vorländer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aufzeichnungen (J. Bard, 1914), by William Hogarth, Johannes Thummerer, and M. Leitner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Treatise on poetry, translated, with notes on the translation and on the original; and two dissertations on poetical and musical imitation. (Payne, 1789), by Aristotle and Thomas Twining (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle's Art of poetry. Translated from the original Greek according to Mr. Theodore Goulston's edition. (D. Browne and W. Turner, 1705), by Aristotle, André Dacier, and Theodore Goulston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle's treatise on poetry. (Printed by L. Hansard & sons, [etc., etc.], 1812), by Aristotle, Daniel Twining, and Thomas Twining (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kritik der Urtheilskraft. (L. Heimann, 1869), by Immanuel Kant and J. H. von Kirchmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peri poiētikēs. De arte poetica liber. (Apud F. Vahlenum, 1874), by Aristotle and Johannes Vahlen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotelis De arte poetica liber. (in aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1893), by Aristotle and Wilhelm von Christ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotelous Peri poiētikēs = Aristotelis de poetica liber (E typographeo Clarendoniano, 1806), by Aristotle and Thomas Tyrwhitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laokoon; oder, Über die grenzen der mahlerey und poesie ... Mit beyläufigen erläuterungen verschiedener punkte der alten kunstgeschichte ... (G.J. Göschen, 1864), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon (Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1866), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and B. Levy (page images at HathiTrust)
• La poetica d'Aristotile. Volgarizzata da Lodovico Castelvetro. (G. Silvestri, 1831), by Aristotle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle on the art of poetry (Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1913), by Aristotle and Lane Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur le beau. (Chez Guichard Ainé, 1827), by Yves Marie André (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vorlesungen über die Critik der Urtheilskraft. (J. Stahel, 1796), by Lazarus Bendavid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Del gusto presente in letteratura italiana : dissertazione del sig. dottor Matteo Borsa, regio professore nella universita di Mantova, data in luce e accompagnata da copiose osservazioni relative al medesimo argomento da Stefano Arteaga. (Presso Antonio Zatta e Figli, 1785), by Matteo Borsa and Esteban de Arteaga (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful, with an introductory discourse concerning taste, and several other additions. (Printed for D. Johnson, Portland, by J. Watts, 1806), by Edmund Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psafone : trattato d'amore (Per Gio. Rossi, 1590), by Melchiorre Zoppio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetica (G. Laterza, 1916), by Aristotle and Manara Valgimigli (page images at HathiTrust)
• O poezii. (1854), by Aristotle and Boris Ivanovich Ordynskii (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nauka poezii, ili, Poslanie k Pizonam Kvinta Goratsiia Flakka (V Tip. A. Semena, 1853), by Horace and M. Dmitriev (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon. An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art. (Roberts Brothers, 1890), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Ellen Frothingham, and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Americana (page images at HathiTrust)
• De arte poetica liber ([s.n.], 1874), by Aristotle and Johannes Vahlen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gedanken über die Schönheit und den Geschmack in der Malerey (Bey Orell, Gessner, Füesslin und Compagnie, 1771), by Anton Raphael Mengs, Johann Rudolf Schellenberg, Johann Caspar Fuessli, and Gessner Orell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lezzione di m. Francesco de' Vieri fiorentino, detto il Verino secondo : per recitarla nell' Accademia fiorentina, nel consolato di m. Federigo Strozzi, l'anno 1580 : dove si ragiona delle idee et delle bellezze. (Appresso Giorgio Marescotti, 1581), by Francesco de Vieri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Espectaculo das bellas artes (Na officina de Antonio Alvarez Ribeiro :, 1786), by Jacques Lacombe and Antonio Alvarez Ribeiro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogues sur les arts : entre un artiste ameriquain et un amateur françois. (Chez Duchesne, libraire ..., 1755), by Pierre Estève (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über den guten Geschmack bei ländlichen Kunst- und Gärten-Anlagen (In der von Kleefeldschen Buchhandlung, 1798), by Uvedale Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur le beau (Chez J.H. Schneider, 1759), by Yves Marie André, Jean Herman Schneider, and Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité du beau essentiel dans les arts : appliqué particulièrement à l'architecture, et démontré phisiquement et par l'expérience ... (Chez l'auteur ... et Chereau ..., 1752), by Charles Étienne Briseux, Martin Marvie, and Johann Georg Wille (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dell'entusiasmo delle belle arti. (Appresso Giuseppe Galeazzi regio stampatore, 1769), by Saverio Bettinelli and Giuseppe Galeazzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delle riflessioni sopra il buon gusto nelle scienze e nell'arti (Presso Niccolò Pezzana, 1742), by Lodovico Antonio Muratori and Niccolò Pezzana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il Figino, overo, Del fine della pittvra : dialogo (Per Francesco Osanna ..., 1591), by Gregorio Comanini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le belle arti, pittura, scultura, e architettura, compimento, e perfezione delle bellezze dell'universo mostrate nel Campidoglio dall'Accademia del disegno il d ì 24. settembre 1711 : essendo principe della medesima il sig. cavalier Carlo Maratti e viceprincipe il signor cavalier Carlo Francesco Person (Per lo stampatore Gaetano Zenobj ..., 1711), by Giuseppe Ghezzi, Gaetano Zenobi, Niccolò Forteguerri, and Accademia di San Luca (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon : ou des limites de la peinture et de la poésie (Hachette, 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and A. Courtin (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'analisi della bellezza : scritta col disegno di fissar l'idee vaghe del gusto (Per Gio. Paolo Fantechi ..., 1761), by William Hogarth, Giovanni Paolo Fantechi, and Francesco Violanti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gedanken über die Schönheit und über den Geschmak in der Malerey (Bey Orell, Gessner, Füesslin u. Comp., 1774), by Anton Raphael Mengs, Salomon Gessner, and Johann Caspar Füssli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two discourses. I. An essay on the whole art of criticism, as it relates to painting ... II. An argument in behalf of the science of a connoisseur; wherein is shewn the dignity, certainty, pleasure, and advantage of it. (Printed for W. Churchill ..., 1719), by Jonathan Richardson and William Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delle leggi del bello applicate alla pittura ed architettura (Nella stamp. del R.I. Monast. di S. Salvatore, 1791), by Luigi Malaspina di Sannazaro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ricerca filosofica sull' origine delle nostre idee intorno al sublime ed al bello : con un discorso sopra il gusto e diverse altre aggiunte : opera tradotta dall' inglese. (Dalla tipografia di Francesco Sonzogno di Gio. Battista, 1804), by Edmund Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio sopra la bellezza. ([F. Bizzarrini Komareck], 1765), by Giuseppe Spalletti, Francesco Bizzarrini Komarek, and Giovanni Lodovico Bianconi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marci Antonii Nattae astensis De pulchro libri sex (Apvd Franciscvm Moschenivm, 1553), by Marcus Antonius Natta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettere su le belle arti publicate nelle nozze Barbarigo-Pisani. (Nella stamperia di Carlo Palese, 1793), by Saverio Bettinelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die bildende Nachahmung des Schönen (In der Schul-Buchandlung, 1788), by Karl Philipp Moritz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essais sur la peinture (Chez Fr. Buisson ..., 1795), by Denis Diderot and François Buisson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les beaux arts reduits à un même principe. (Chez Durand ..., 1746), by Charles Batteux, Charles-Jean-Baptiste Delespine, Laurent Durand, Dominique Sornique, Charles Eisen, and Jean Baptiste Delafosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotelous Peri Poiētikēs = Aristotelis De arte poetica, (Vahlen's text): (Parker and Co., 1890), by Aristotle, Edward Ross Wharton, and Johannes Vahlen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peri poiētikēs (Parker, 1883), by Aristotle, Johannes Vahlen, and Edward Ross Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kritik der Urtheilskraft. (L. Voss, 1884), by Immanuel Kant, Jakob Sigismund Beck, and Benno Erdmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kritik der Urtheilskraft (Dürr, 1902), by Immanuel Kant and Karl Vorländer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lessing's Laokoon (The Clarendon press, 1895), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, L. E. Upcott, A. Hamann, Lewis Edward Upcott, and Albert Hamann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon (Macmillan, 1874), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Robert Phillimore, and James Burn & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• La poétique d'Aristote (Le Bigot frères, 1899), by Aristotle, Médéric Dufour, and Adolphe Hatzfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Laokoon. (Clarendon Press, 1878), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and A. Hamann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle's treatise on poetry (Printed by L. Hansard & sons, [etc., etc.], 1812), by Aristotle, Daniel Twining, and Thomas Twining (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon : an essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art (Roberts Brothers, 1880), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Ellen Frothingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peri poiētikēs. (Apvd Franciscvm Vahlenvm, 1874), by Aristotle and Johannes Vahlen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critica del Giudizio (G. Laterza, 1907), by Immanuel Kant and Alfredo Gargiulo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Laokoon. (Haude u. Spener, 1882), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Wilhelm Cosak (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon. (Hachette, 1879), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and B. Lévy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoonte. (Tip. della'Accademia reale delle scienze diretta da M. de Rubertis, 1879), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Tommaso Persico (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon sive, De limitibus artibus et fingendi et poeticae circumscriptis liber in Latinum versus sermonem per L. Gu. Hasperum. (C. Bertelsmanni, 1879), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon (G. Routledge & Sons, 1870), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Robert Phillimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poétique; avec des extraits de la Politique et des Problèmes (Hachette et cie, 1874), by Aristotle and Emile Egger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotelis de arte poetica liber (Apud I. Guttentag, 1867), by Aristotle and Johannes Vahlen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laokoon. Entwürfe und Fragmente zu Laokoon (J. G. Cotta, 1883), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Hugo Göring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotelis De arte poetica liber. (Teubner, 1910), by Aristotle and Wilhelm von Christ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die Grundsätze und die Natur des Schönen (In Commission bei W. Vieweg, 1797), by Franz Volkmar Reinhard, Scheffner, Anton Graff, and Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über das Erhabene (Gebr. Klingspor, 1918), by Friedrich Schiller and Gebrüder Klingspor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen (Insel-Verlag, 1913), by Immanuel Kant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La poetica d'Aristotile. Volgarizzata da Lodovico Castelvetro. (G. Silvestri, 1831), by Aristotle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigaciones filosoficas sobre la belleza ideal (A. de Sancha, 1789), by Esteban de Arteaga (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotelis De arte poetica liber. (Hirzel, 1885), by Aristotle and Johannes Vahlen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristoteles über die Dichtkunst. Griechisch und Deutsch und mit sacherklärenden Anmerkungen (Engelmann, 1865), by Aristotle and Franz Susemihl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplement to the Hon. Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of painters and engravers (Sold by T. and J. Egerton, Whitehall :, 1792), by Jonathan Richardson and Horace Walpole (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the picturesque, as compared with the sublime and the beautiful : and on the use of studying pictures, for the purpose of improving real landscape (Printed for J. Robson ..., 1794), by Uvedale Price and James Robson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zergliederung der Schönheit : die schwankenden Begriffe von dem Geschmack festzusetzen (Bey Andreas Linde ... ;, 1754), by William Hogarth, Andreas Linde, and Christlob Mylius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen (Bey Friedrich Hartknoch, 1771), by Immanuel Kant and Johann Friedrich Hartknoch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo di M. Nicolo Franco, dove si ragiona delle belleze (Nele stampe di Gioanantonio Gvidone, 1542), by Niccoloò Franco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de différentes pièces sur les arts (Chez Barrois l'aîné, libraire ... , 1786), by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Louis-François Barrois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur le beau (Chez J.H. Schneider, libraire, 1767), by Yves Marie André and Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters concerning taste. (Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1755), by John Gilbert Cooper, James Dodsley, Robert Dodsley, Samuel Wale, and Charles Grignion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des limites respectives de la poésie et de la peinture (Chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard., 1802), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Ant. Aug. Renouard, Charles Crapelet, Augustin Saint-Aubin, Jean-Galbert Salvage, and Martin Marie Charles de Boudens Vanderbourg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peri poiētikēs. : De arte poetica (Apud S. Hirzelivm, 1885), by Aristotle and Johannes Vahlen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur le goût (Chez Delalain ... ;, 1766), by Alexander Gerard, M. E. (Marc Eidous), Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Jean Le Rond d' Alembert, and Voltaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de sentir et de juger en matiere de gout. (De l'imprimerie de Rolland et Jacob, 1788), by Seran de La Tour and Rolland et Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Kritik des Geschmacks (Bei F.A. Leupold, 1797), by Karl Heinrich Heydenreich (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful : With an introductory discourse concerning taste, and several other additions. (Printed for S. F. Bradford by J. Watts, 1806), by Edmund Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuche über die Mahlerey (Bey Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1797), by Denis Diderot, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, and Carl Friedrich Cramer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kritik der Urtheilskraft (Leopold Voss, 1880), by Immanuel Kant and Benno Erdmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schreiben an Herrn Anton Pons (Bey Rudolph Gräffer, 1778), by Anton Raphael Mengs, Rudolph Gräffer, and Antoine Pons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon : an essay on the limits of painting and poetry (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1853), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundsätze der Aesthetik (Bey Georg Adam Keyser, 1791), by Karl Theodor von Dalberg, Johann Gottfried Christian Nonne, and Georg Adam Keyser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio sul buon gusto nelle belle arti : ove si spiegano, gl' elementi dell' estetica di Fr. Gaud. Jagemann, reggente agostiniano. (Presso Luigi Bastianelli e compagni, 1771), by Christian Joseph Jagemann and Luigi Bastianelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• The analysis of beauty, written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste. (Printed for R. Scholey by T. Davison, 1810), by William Hogarth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Del gusto presente in letteratura italiana (Presso Antonio Zatta e figli, 1785), by Matteo Borsa and Antonio Zatta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur le beau (Chez L. Etienne Ganeau ..., 1770), by Yves Marie André, L. Etienne Ganeau, and Guillaume-Germain Guyot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gare della natvra e dell'arte (Per il Dandi, 1706), by Fabrizio Antonio Monsignani and Gioseffo Dandi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle, On the art of poetry; translated by Ingram Bywater, with a pref. by Gilbert Murray. (Clarendon Press, 1909), by Aristotle, Gilbert Murray, and Ingram Bywater (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essai sur le goût (s.n.], 1751), by François Cartaud de La Villate (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Laocoon, and other prose writings of Lessing (W. Scott, 1895), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and W. B. Rönnfeldt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kritik der Urteilskraft (F. Meiner, 1924), by Immanuel Kant and Karl Vorländer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Laokoon, and How the ancients represented death (G. Bell and sons, ltd., 1914), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Helen Zimmern, and Edward Calvert Beasley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotelous Peri poiētikēs. Aristotle, On the art of poetry (Clarendon Press, 1909), by Aristotle and Ingram Bywater (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il filosofismo delle belle : esposto in quindeci lettere nella prima parte, e dodeci nella seconda parte con sette capitoli (Presso Giovanni Tavernin ..., 1753), by Giovanni Cattaneo and Giovanni Tevernin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Propyläen. (J. G. Cotta, 1798), by Heinrich Meyer and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The plan of an essay upon delicacy. : With a specimen of the work. In two dialogues (Printed for R. Dodsley, 1748), by Nathaniel Lancaster (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful (J. Dodsley, 1770), by Edmund Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue. : In two treatises (Printed for J. and J. Knapton [etc.], 1729), by Francis Hutcheson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vom guten Geschmack in der Philosophie : bey dem Antrit des Lehramts (Bey Christian Gottfried Donatius, 1770), by Christian Cajus Lorenz Hirschfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful; with an introductory discourse concerning taste. (Harper & brothers, 1871), by Edmund Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité du beau. ([s.n.], 1772), by Denis Diderot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les beaux arts réduits à un même principe. (Chez Durand, 1747), by Charles Batteux, Laurent Durand, Charles-Jean-Baptiste Delespine, Dauphin of France Louis, Jean-Charles Delafosse, and Charles Eisen (page images at HathiTrust)
• De arte poetica liber (in Aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1878), by Aristotle and Wilhelm von Christ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emmanuel Kant (F. Meiner, 1922), by Immanuel Kant and Karl Vorländer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The poetics of Aristotle (Macmillan, 1922), by Aristotle and S. H. Butcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen (P. Brandt, 1910), by Immanuel Kant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle on the art of poetry; an amplified version with supplementary illustrations for students of English (Harcourt, Brace, 1913), by Aristotle and Lane Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laokoon, oder Über die grenzen der malerei und poesie ... Mit beiläufigen erläuterungen verschiedener puncte der alten kunstgeschichte. (G. J. Göschen'sche verlagsbuchhandlung, 1870), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Karl Goedeke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laokoon; Lessing, Herder, Goethe; selections ed. (H. Holt and company, 1910), by William Guild Howard, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Gottfried Herder, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art poétique de Boileau Despréax : suivi de sa IXe satire, et de son épitre a M. de Lamoignon : ouvrages déclarés classiques par la commission nommée pour le choix des livres élémentaires : avec des argumens, les notes historiques de Brossette, un commentaire littéraire d'après Saint-Marc, et plusieurs remarques tirées des littérateurs les plus célèbres : précédés des Considérations sur la poétique, par Fénélon, des discours de Racine sur l'essence de la poésie, la poésie naturelle et le respect que les poétes doivent à la religion : formant avec le texte une poétique complète. (Chez Tournachon-Molin, 1805), by Nicolas Boileau Despréaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sämtliche Werke, ausgewählte Briefe und nachgelassene Schriften (Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), by Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury, Wolfram Benda, and Gerd Hemmerich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Laocoon. An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry, with remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art ... (Roberts, 1894), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kritik of judgment. (Macmillan and Co., 1892), by Immanuel Kant, J. H. Bernard, and William James (page images at HathiTrust)
• The analysis of beauty (Done at the Silver lotus shop, 1909), by William Hogarth and William Chesebrough Ostrander (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful : with an introductory discourse concerning taste (Harper, 1863), by Edmund Burke and Abraham Mills (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon : An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art., by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks : with instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art, by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, trans. by Henry Fuseli (Gutenberg ebook)
• Runousoppi (in Finnish), by Aristotle, trans. by J. W. Calamnius (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Analysis of Beauty: Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste, by William Hogarth (Gutenberg ebook)
• Reflexions sur la Poétique d'Aristote et sur les ouvrages des poètes anciens & modernes. English (London : Printed by T.N. for H. Herringman ..., 1674), by René Rapin and Thomas Rymer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• I problemi della belleza. (At London : Printed by G. Eld, for Edward Blount, and William Aspley, 1606), by Thommaso Buoni and Samson Lennard (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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