Books about Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800

The Poetics of Aristotle

Poetics

Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks : with instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art

Laocoon : An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art.

Aristotle on the art of poetry

The Analysis of Beauty

The Art of Poetry: an Epistle to the Pisos (Latin)

An Essay on the Beautiful, from the Greek of Plotinus

Laokoon: Oder, Über die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie (German)

Aristoteles' Poetik : Mit einer Abhandlung: Wahrheit und Irrtum in der Katharsis-Theorie des Aristoteles (German)

Runousoppi (Finnish)