Author: Hugh Blair
Title: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Letters
Description: London, W. Strahan; T. Cadell; W. Creech, 1783. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Hugh Blair's popular and insightful lectures and essays on language. The first edition.Complete in two volumes.A series of lectures by Hugh Blair.These forty-seven lectures were given whilst Blair was the chair of Rhetoric at the University of Edinburgh. He was a proponent for young people acquiring effective writing skills as he thought they were of important value socially in elevating status, in addition to promoting virtue and morality. These lectures form a guide to rhetoric. A frequently reprinted work, Blair provides an organised guide to belletristic rhetoric and literary theory in a concise and accessible form. Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece. Collated, complete.Bookplate of Alexander Higginson to the front paste downs. In a full tree calf binding. Externally, front boards are detached but present. Leather is a little rubbed with some light marks, rubbing resulting in loss to the extremities. Rear joints are starting. A small amount of loss to the head and tail of the spines. Small chips to the spine labels. Bookplate to the front paste downs. Rear hinge of Volume II is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the occasional scattered spot. Good Only . Ill.: Not Stated. Good Only .
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Title: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Letters
Description: London, W. Strahan; T. Cadell; W. Creech, 1783. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Hugh Blair's popular and insightful lectures and essays on language. The first edition.Complete in two volumes.A series of lectures by Hugh Blair.These forty-seven lectures were given whilst Blair was the chair of Rhetoric at the University of Edinburgh. He was a proponent for young people acquiring effective writing skills as he thought they were of important value socially in elevating status, in addition to promoting virtue and morality. These lectures form a guide to rhetoric. A frequently reprinted work, Blair provides an organised guide to belletristic rhetoric and literary theory in a concise and accessible form. Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece. Collated, complete.Bookplate of Alexander Higginson to the front paste downs. In a full tree calf binding. Externally, front boards are detached but present. Leather is a little rubbed with some light marks, rubbing resulting in loss to the extremities. Rear joints are starting. A small amount of loss to the head and tail of the spines. Small chips to the spine labels. Bookplate to the front paste downs. Rear hinge of Volume II is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the occasional scattered spot. Good Only . Ill.: Not Stated. Good Only .
Keywords: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Letters lectures essays hugh blair lectures Not Stated
Price: GBP 250.00 = appr. US$ 357.00 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 952P66
- Book number: 952P66
See more books from our catalog: Literary Criticism