[[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. [[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.] SEE THIS ITEM IN CONTEXT ON ONE OF OUR SPECIALIST CATALOGUE PAGES. [[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.] [[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. [[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.] SEE THIS ITEM IN CONTEXT ON ONE OF OUR SPECIALIST CATALOGUE PAGES. [[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.]