Ausführliche Redekunst - Gottsched, Johann Christoph 1700-1766 (Leipzig Breitkopf, 1759)
Beautiful engraved portrait of the author as rector to the Leipzig Academy
Dedicated to Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Schwedt (1700-1771)
In the preface, Gottsched writes that he designed this book as a series of Lectionen eight years earlier, and that he would continue to give these lectures every semester (p. xvii) Lectures took place twice a week, we learn on p. xviii, and attendance had grown to sixteen.
Gottsched's intentions are unabashedly classicist: "Ich werde mirs auch allemaal für eine Ehre schätzen, wenn meine Vorschriften mit den Regeln Cicerons und Quintilians, des P. Rapin, des P. Lami und Herrn Rollins ec. ec. übereinstimmen werden." (p. xvii)
Originally published in 1739, of which this looks to be a copy (cf. absence of the edition number). Another, more common edition of 1756 is: https://books.google.de/books?id=fK5hwAEACAAJ
Ex libris RAsenschmid (ms.)Ex libris Stadt-Bibliothek Murten (stamp)
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