[Rarebooks] FS: Blackwall's "An Introduction to the Classics..." London: 1728

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Blackwall, Anthony. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CLASSICS: Containing, a Short Discourse on Their Excellencies: and Directions How to Study Them to Advantage. With an Essay on the Nature and Use of Those Emphatical and Beautiful Figures Which Give Strength and Ornament to Writing. The Fourth Edition, with Additions, and an Index. London: Printed for Charles Rivington, and William Cantrell. 1728. 12mo. (8),272,(5)pp. Index. Plus a page of publisher's ads preceding the title page and another page on the verso of the final leaf of index. Title printed in red & black. Cont. calf, gilt ruled covers, brown calf spine label (reading. Outer hinges starting but holding soundly. Engraved armorial bookplate of John Mills on front pastedown.                   $300.00 (trade discount allowed)
This is the last edition published in the author's (1674-1730) lifetime.

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