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Author

Gibbons, Thomas, 1720-1785.

Title Rhetoric [microform] : or, A view of its principal tropes and figures, in their origin and powers with a variety of rules to escape errors and blemishes, and attain propriety and elegance in composition / by Thomas Gibbons.

Imprint

London : Printed by J. and W. Oliver in Bartholomew-Close ; and sold by James Buckland and John Payne, both in Paternoster-Row, 1767.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Basement Book Microfilm Cabinets	808.5 B777 reel 4 item 38	---	Available

Description	[12], 478, [2] p.
Series	British and continental rhetoric and elocution [microform]; Reel 4, no. 38.
Note	"...the Author...has made his researches into Aristotle, Cicero, Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Horace, Seneca, Quintilian, Longinus, Hermogenes, Dionysius, Phalereus, and Tiberius Rhetor, among the ancients; and into Vida, Caussinius, Glassius, Vossius, Fenelon, Rolin, Trapp, Addison, Pope, Melmoth, Spence, and Lowth, among the moderns." -- Preface, p. [5].
Reproduction	Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1953. On reel 4 of 16 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (British and continental rhetoric and elocution ; Reel 4, no. 38).
Subject	English language -- Rhetoric -- 1500-1800.
	Elocution.
	Expression.