CREVIER, Jean-Baptiste-Louis
Rhétorique françoise. Paris, Saillant & Desaint, 1765. 2 volumes in-12 (165 x 94 mm) of XXXIV, 425 pp. 1 f.n.ch. for volume I; 2 f.n.ch., 384 pp. for volume II.
Marbled calf, smooth spine decorated, red and lemon morocco title-piece and tomes respectively, red edges (period binding).
Brunet, II, 424; Quérard, II, 339.
First edition. Crévier (1693-1765) was a historian and professor of rhetoric at the college of Paris; a pupil of Rollin, he continued his Histoire romaine. After a historical overview of the classical antiquity, Crévier gives details on elocution, memory and pronunciation.
Good copy, small worm work on the lower spine (vol. II).
