Lot 77
Allahabad printed Oxford logician.- Whately (Richard) Elements of logic, first edition of this issue, with an 8pp. autograph letter by the author on education, Allahabad, Printed at the Presbyterian Mission Press, 1853.
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Description
Allahabad printed Oxford logician.- Whately (Richard) Elements of logic, first edition of this issue, with an 8pp. autograph letter by the author on education loosely inserted (with remains of previous binding in), interleaved with later pencil notes and marginalia, occasional spotting, lightly browned, modern blue buckram, printed paper label to spine, 8vo, Allahabad, Printed at the Presbyterian Mission Press, 1853.
⁂ Richard Whately (1787-1863), English rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian, who served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen.
Description
Allahabad printed Oxford logician.- Whately (Richard) Elements of logic, first edition of this issue, with an 8pp. autograph letter by the author on education loosely inserted (with remains of previous binding in), interleaved with later pencil notes and marginalia, occasional spotting, lightly browned, modern blue buckram, printed paper label to spine, 8vo, Allahabad, Printed at the Presbyterian Mission Press, 1853.
⁂ Richard Whately (1787-1863), English rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian, who served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen.