Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres. The third edition

by Hugh Blair

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: for A. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. Creech, in Edinburgh, 1787. 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait in vol. 1; full contemporary calf, red morocco labels and green morocco numbering pieces on spines; minor wear but a very nice set. Hugh Blair 1718-1800 the famed Scots divine and professor of rhetoric was very successful with this book which could boast ten editions in England between 1783 and 1806, not to mention the American reissues and

• Binding: Leather

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