8vo. xvi, 72pp. With a half-title and eight engraved plates. Original publisher's blind-stamped blue cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Plates foxed. Ink ownership inscriptions of Thomas Gladstone to FEP and head of title. Presentation copy, ink inscription to recto of FFEP: 'From the Author'.

The sole edition of a monograph on aesthetics and the beauty of form, that builds on the theories of decorative painter and writer on art and design David Ramsay Hay (1798-1866), by physician John Addington Symonds (1807-1871), father of writer and advocate of sexual reform John Addington Symonds (1840-1893).

Thomas Gladstone (1804-1889), Tory politician, elder brother of the Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898).