Quintilien de l'Institution de l'Orateur Traduit by Nicolas Gedoyn
Hardcover. Condition: Good+/Very Good-. 1718. Gregoire Dupuis. In French. 1st Edition.
Published in 1718, Abbé Nicolas Gédoyn’s De l'institution de l'orateur is the landmark 18th-century French translation of the Roman rhetorician Quintilian’s twelve-book treatise on public speaking, Institutio Oratoria. At its core is Quintilian’s famous ideal that a truly great speaker must first be a virtuous, morally upright citizen (vir bonus dicendi peritus). Celebrated for its smooth, idiomatic Enlightenment French, Gédoyn’s translation made Quintilian's classical pedagogy and literary criticism widely accessible to French scholars and writers, remaining the standard French edition for over a century.
Leathere bound with expected amount of edge-wear. Corners rubbed and bumped. Possbily rebound. Red edges. Minimal foxing and interior tightly bound.