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.
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. and William Creech...[et al.], 1806. First edition of this early biography of poet, moral philosopher and literary critic James Beattie (1735–1803). Compiled by a close friend, it is largely made up of Beattie’s letters, linked together by comments from Forbes. Engraved frontispiece in.....