An Essay upon Poetry and Painting with Relation to the Sacred and Profane History. With an appendix concerning obscenity in writing.
London: F. Fayram, 1730. First edition. A very good copy. Contemporary paneled calf, expertly rebacked, Twelvemo. [2], 202 pp. Charles Lamotte (1681?-1741) is known almost solely for the present work; he receives no mention in the D.N.B. There is, however, a substantial entry on him in the Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century.....