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. By Anthony Blackwall, M.A

People / Organizations

• Anthony Blackwall (Author)

Imprint

London : printed [by Samuel Palmer] for Charles Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and William Cantrell, bookseller in Derby, M.DCC.XXV. [1725] The third edition with additions and an index.; ..

Publication year

1725

ESTC No.

T55744

Grub Street ID

282303

Description

[8],272,[8]p. ; 12°.

Note

Titlepage in red and black

Printer identified on the basis of ornaments; see Hazel Wilkinson, "Benjamin Franklin's London printing 1725-26", Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110:2 (June 2016), 139-180, Appendix A, no. 1

With an index and a final advertisement leaf

Signatures: A]4 B-M]1]2 N]8.