Esthetique Comme Science De L'expression Et Linguistique Générale by Benedetto Croce, Henry Bigot - 1904-01-01

Paris: V. Girard & E. Brière, 1904. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22.5cm). In contemporary half green leather, tooled in blind and gilt, titled in gilt on spine, with green cloth over boards; grey endpapers; [vi], 518pp. A sturdy copy in an appealing binding, gently rubbed, spine dulled; with minor browning to edges of leaves and occasional pencil annotations, else clean: Very Good. With an ownership inscription dated 1912. Croce was an intellectual leader in the opposition to Mussolini's fascist regime, and author of the Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals in 1925. He was also a well-recognized philosopher and historian; Aesthetic was his first major work on art and aesthetic theory, introducing his key view that art is essentially expression. One copy of this translation in OCLC.