Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Delivered in the University of Glasgow by Adam Smith, Reported by a Student in 1762-63

Adam Smith; John M. Lothian (ed.); David Potter (foreword)

ISBN 10: 080930502X / ISBN 13: 9780809305025

Published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1963

About this Item

Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are a little age toned. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket shows just a little light wear around the edges; the spine of the dust jacket is lightly age toned. The top corner of the front flap of the dust jacket is price clipped. 205pp.

Seller Inventory # 065517

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Delivered in the University of Glasgow by Adam Smith, Reported by a Student in 1762-63
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication Date: 1963
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080930502X
• ISBN 13: 9780809305025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism
  • Philosophy

About this title

Synopsis

This edition of John M. Lothian’s transcription of an almost com­plete set of a student’s notes on Smith’s lectures given at the University of Glasgow in 1762–63brings back into print not only an important discovery but a valuable contribution to eighteenth-century rhetorical theory.

About the Author

John M. Lothian, former Professor of English in the University of Sas­katchewan, is Reader in English in the University of Aberdeen.