Author:Anthony Ashley Cooper (1671-1713)

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Anthony Ashley Cooper
(1671–1713)

Anthony Ashley Cooper

Works

• A speech lately made by a noble peer of the realm (1681) (external scan)
• An impartial account of the nature and tendency of the late addresses: in a letter to a gentleman in the country (1681) (external scan)
• An Inquiry Concerning Virtue. (1699) (external scan). Shaftesbury renounced this first edition as unauthorised, and rewrote the work between 1705–10.
• A Letter concerning Enthusiasm (1708) (external scan)
• Sensus Communis (1709)
• The Moralists (1709)
• Soliloquy Communis (1709)
• A notion of the historical draught or tablature of the judgment of Hercules, 1713 (external scan)

Collected works

• Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1st edition 1711; 2nd, corrected and enlarged, edition 1714), in 3 vols.
  • John Baskerville edition (1773):
    • Volume I. (transcription project)
      • A Letter concerning Enthusiasm
      • Sensus Communis; an Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour
      • Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author
    • Volume II. (transcription project)
      • An Inquiry concerning Virtue and Merit
      • The Moralists; a Philosophical Rhapsody
    • Volume III. (transcription project)
      • Miscellaneous Reflections on the said Treatises, and other critical Subjects
      • A Notion of the Historical Draught, or Tablature of the Judgment of Hercules
      • A Letter concerning the Art, or Science of Design

Works about Cooper

• "Cooper, Anthony Ashley (1671-1713)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)