Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres

by Hugh Blair

$1,250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

London: for A. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. Creech, in Edinburgh, 1783. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. viii, 496; 4 , 550, 17 index; engraved frontispiece portrait; full contemporary calf, neatly rebacked in red and black morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; some foxing, very good and sound. 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

• Binding: Leather

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