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Total number of records: 26

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	10
English Literature	8
Ripon Cathedral	4
Incunabula	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
rhetoric	26
oratory	7
english language	6
classical literature	3
classical philology	3
literature	3
elocution	2
rhetoric, ancient	2
comedy	1
figures of speech	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Arnauld, Antoine	3
Arnauld, Antoine (1612-1694)	3
Blackwall, Anthony (1674-1730)	3
Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)	3
Lamy, Bernard (1640-1715)	3
Sergeant, John	3
Sergeant, John (1622-1707)	3
Smith, John (1657-)	3
Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE)	2
Nicole, Pierre	2

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Earliest date	Count
From 1400	1
From 1500	4
From 1600	9
From 1700	12

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1499	1
Up to 1599	4
Up to 1699	9
Up to 1799	12

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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

Blackwall, Anthony (1674-1730)

1728

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Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres (v.1)

Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)

1796

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Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres (v.2)

Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)

1796

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Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres (v.3)

Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)

1796

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Dionysii Longini Peri hupsous libellus

Longinus; Lefebvre, Tannegui (1615-1672)

1663

Pages 390-391 numbered 374-375. Text in Greek and Latin.

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La rhetorique : ou L'art de parler

Lamy, Bernard (1640-1715); Arnauld, Antoine (1612-1694); Nicole, Pierre (1625-1695)

1712

Attributed also to Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole.

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Théorie du paradoxe

Morellet, André (1727-1819)

1775

Page 224 erroneously numbered 214. Attributed to André Morellet--Cf. NUC pre-1956. "Ouvrage plein de sel et de verve, dirigé contre Linguet"--Quérard, V, p. 309.

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Aristotelous Technēs rhētorikēs biblia tria. = Aristotelis de rhetorica seu arte dicendi libri tres, Graecolat : Contextu Graeco, ad exemplaria selectiora emendato; Latino, paraphrasi, ubi opus, intertexto; utroque, etiam in particulas distincto... [etc.]

Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE); Goulston, Theodore (1575-1632)

1619

Title proper romanized from the Greek. Title within historiated woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 252). Full page arms of Prince Charles on t.p. verso. Printer's device as headpiece on A3 (McK...

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