Whately, Richard (1787-1863)
Elements of Rhetoric; Comprising of an Analysis of the Law of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion ; With Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution
New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860. Early American Edition. Hardcover. pp. ix, 351. 16mo. measuring 4" x 6.25". Publisher's charming floral stamped cloth over boards, stamped rules and gilt lettering to the spine. Light bumping, fraying to spine ends, tips, circual accession stamps to the endpapers, private ownership blind-stamp to the to the endpapers and title page, sporadic foxing throughout (unaffecting legibility of the text). Overall, good. Scarce in commerce in this early edition. Sections include: "Of the Addresses to the Understanding, with a View to Produce Conviction (Including Instruction); Of the Address to the Will, or Persuasion; Of Style; Of Elocution, or Delivery, et al. Richard Whately was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen". [Source: Brent, Richard. "Whately, Richard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press].

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