By John Mason, A.M.
London: printed for
J. Buckland; and
J. Waugh,
m.dcc.lxi
. [1761.]
PE1504 .M32 1761
8vo. 3 parts in 1, with general title and each part with a separate title, separate signatures and pagination; 40, 44 and
18 leaves, the last leaf of the second part with a list of four books by the same author, repeated at the end of the last
part.
Not in Lowndes.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. I, 23.
Old calf, gilt back, initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and *I (there is no sig. T). With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
John Mason, 1706-1763, English nonconformist divine and author. The first edition of this work appeared in 1749.
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Cambray on eloquence.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 155, no. 5, as above.
FÉNÉLON,
François de Salignac de la Motte.
Dialogues concerning Eloquence: with a Letter to the French Academy, Concerning Rhetoric, and Poetry. By M. de Fenelon Archbishop of Cambray. To which is added, A Discourse Pronounced by the Author at his Admission into the Academy; with a
new Translation of his Dialogues between Demosthenes and Cicero, Virgil and Horace.
[
Glasgow: Printed and Sold by
R. and A. Foulis
m. dcc. lx
.] [1760.]
PN4105 .F45 1760
Sm. 8vo. 180 leaves, separate titles for the several parts, continuous signatures and pagination; the imprint appears only
on the title for Dialogues concerning Eloquence in General . . . Translated from the
French, and Illustrated with Notes and Quotations; by William Stevenson M. A. Rector of Morningthorp in Norfolk. [Sig. a
2.]
Not in Lowndes.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 28.
This volume has been rebound by the Library of Congress with a modern bookplate. It is not initialled by Jefferson at sig.
I and T, and there is no way therefore of proving that it was his copy. The books in this chapter from his library are almost
all extant, it seems reasonable to conclude therefore that this was his copy.
François de Salignac de la Motte [
or
Mothe]
Fénélon, 1651-1715, Archbishop of Cambray. The first edition of his Dialogues sur l’eloquence was published in 1718.
William Stevenson, fl. 1722-1760, clergyman. This is the
third edition of his translation of the Dialogues on Eloquence. The first edition was published in 1722.
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J. 20
Blair’s lectures on Rhetoric.
3. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 155, no. 20, as above.
BLAIR,
Hugh.
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. By Hugh Blair, D. D. one of the Ministers of the High Church, and Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh.
In
Three Volumes. Vol. I [-III].
Basil: printed by
J. J. Tourneisen.
Paris: sold by
Pissot,
m dcc lxxxviii
. [1788.]
PE1402 .B6 1788
3 vol. 8vo. 210, 208 and 204 leaves; on the verso of the first leaf of vol. I (recto blank) is a list of books printed for
J. J. Tourneisen.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Contemporary French calf, gilt vase ornaments on the back, pale blue endpapers. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in
all volumes. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
For Jefferson’s interest in the production of pirated editions by Pissot and Tourneisen, see Gibbon’s
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
, no. 101.
Hugh Blair, 1718-1800, Scottish divine, was professor of rhetoric at the University of Edinburgh. The first edition of his Lectures
was published in 1783.
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