Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Delivered in the University of Glasgow by Adam Smith; Reported by a Student in 1762-63 (Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address)

Smith, Adam

ISBN 10: 080930502X / ISBN 13: 9780809305025

Published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1971

About this Item

clean, crisp copy, previous owner's stamp with name and address, shelf wear on boards, dj has toning on spine and edges, else fine. BP/Philosophy.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1669658301982

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 (Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address)
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080930502X
• ISBN 13: 9780809305025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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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.