Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.

Bryce, J. C., A. S. Skinner (eds.) and Adam Smith:

Published by Indianapolis: LibertyClassics, 1983

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243 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Altersbedingt etwas vergilbt, sonst guter Zustand / Somewhat yellowed due to age, otherwise in good condition. - Introduction: In The Scotsman newspaper of i and 2 November 1961 John M. Lothian, Reader (later titular Professor) in English in the University of Aberdeen announced his discovery and purchase, at the sale of an Aberdeenshire manor-house library in the late summer of 1958, of two volumes of manuscript Notes of Dr. Smiths Rhetorick Lectures. They had been part of the remainder of a once extensive collection begun in the sixteenth century by William Forbes of Tolquhoun Castle, and in the late eighteenth century the property of the Forbes- Leith family of Whitehaugh, an estate brought to the Forbeses by the marriage of Anne Leith. In September 1963 Lothian published an edition of the notes as Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres Delivered in the University of Glasgow by Adam Smith, Reported by a Student in 176263 (Nelson). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.
• Publisher: Indianapolis: LibertyClassics
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• Binding: Softcover.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 550 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophie