Elementary Principles of the Belles Lettres…with Reflections on Public Exhibitions. Translated from the French by the late Mr. Sloper Foreman.
London: Printed for F. Newberry, 1766. First edition in English of an important French treatise on belles lettres, which catered to the increasing interest in self-education and self-improvement that characterized the later eighteenth century. The translator notes that Formey’s work is “…admirably well calculated for conveying a perfect knowledge of.....