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[[postfree1blair]] BLAIR / LECTURES ON RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES ♦ £430 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ [
rhetoric, belles lettres, sublimity, beauty, style, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.]
Printed for W. Strahan, T. Cadell, in the Strand, and W. Creech, in
Edinburgh, 1783.
FIRST EDITION. TWO VOLUME SET.
Although a VERY HEAVY ITEM sold, as always, entirely
POSTFREE-BY-AIRMAIL WORLDWIDE.
Vol. 1 with portrait frontispiece + viii (including title-page)
+ 496 text pages;
Vol. 2 with iv unnumbered (including title-page) + 550 text pages
+ 17 unnumbered index pages;
contemporary tan calf boards with blended-in 20th century antiqued
spine and board corners -- all done by David Stinton
of Midgeley -- with raised bands and gilt stamping/titling on spine
and red and olive
title labels as shown in accompanying composite image;
modern brown endpapers. Also as shown, some
foxing/spotting of prelims in both volumes but elsewhere
delightfully clean internally.
FULLEST DETAILS of publication, pagination,
contents, condition
and size, in both inches & centimetres,
and sample text
all shown in ACCOMPANYING COMPOSITE IMAGE.
***** Scarce First Edition. ******
Hugh Blair (1718-1800), born and educated in Edinburgh and licensed
as a preacher in 1741, was promoted to a High Church position
within the city in 1758. When his fame as a preacher was at its
height he began to lecture on rhetoric and belles lettres, and with
such success that in 1762 a new regius chair was created for him in
the University of Edinburgh. George III bestowed a pension on him in
1780.
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