The Arts of Logick and Rhetorick, Illustrated by Examples taken out of the best Authors, Antient and Modern, In all the Polite Languages

The Arts of Logick and Rhetorick, Illustrated by Examples taken out of the best Authors, Antient and Modern, In all the Polite Languages. Interpreted and Explain'd By that Learned and Judicious Critick.To which are added Parallel Quotations Out of the Most Eminent English Authors in Verse and Prose: Wherein the like Observations are made on their Beauties and Blemishes in all the various Kinds of Thought and Expression. Printed for John Clark [et alia], 1728. First Edition, of the second English translation. xxxii, 232, 225-418, [16, index], [2, ads] pp., contemp. calf (rubbed, upr. joint splitting). Later ex-libris bookplate of Richardson of Pitfour, Bart. This ¿translation¿ is by John Oldmixon, who made notably free with it, added relevant references to English writers, etc., leading some to regard it, in effect, as a ¿new¿ work.