[Rarebooks] fa: NEW ABRIDGMENT OF THE RULES OF FRENCH PROSODIA 1756 - Terence Ryley - RARE

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Terence Ryley: A New Abridgment of the Rules of French Prosodia, according to Buffier's Observations. Shewing, I. The Nature and Quantity of Heroic Verses. II. The Difference between Masculine and Feminine Verses. III. The Nature of the Cesura. IV. Of the mutual Relation Verses bear to each other. V. Of the Epigram, Madrigal, and Sonnet. VI. Odes and Rondeaux, &c. To which is added, the Fourth Satire of Mons. Boileau Despreaux, addressed to Mons. Moliere. London: [s.n.,] Printed in the Year, 1756. First edition. Disbound 8vo (20 cm), [2], 45, [1] pp. Alston, XII 386; ESTC T133245 (for the second ed.).

Disbound, title lightly soiled and detaching, light browning to the edges of the leaves. Very rare: ESTC locates no copies of this first edition and only three copies of the second edition (1758) in British libraries (Oxford, BL, National Trust), none in the U.S. The author was a teacher of French at Oxford University.