Author: DUMARSAIS (DU MARSAIS), César Chesneau
Title: Logique et principes de grammaire.
Description: Paris: chez Briasson, Le Breton, Herissant fils, 1769. 12mo. 2 vols. Vol. 1: [4], xii, [4], 324 pages; Vol. 2: [4], 325-630, [2] pages. Contemporary mottled calf (minor wear at joints and at corners); gold-tooled spines; red leather title labels; marbled endpapers; red-edged leaves; provenance: "ex libris D. Masson" written on front free endpapers. **** Between 1751 and 1756 Dumarsais contributed over 100 articles on language to the Encyclopédie, including those on Abécédaire, Barbarisme, Construction, Décliner, Epithète, Figurative and Grammarien. At about the same time he was working on the manuscript of his Logique ou réflexions sur les principales opérations de l'esprit. After Dumarsais's death some of his more important Encyclopédie articles were added to the Logique and published under the title Logique et principes de grammaire. **** G. Sahlin, César Chesneau Dumarsais et son rôle dans l'évolution de la grammaire générale, page x. W. Risse, Bibliographica logica, vol.1, p.220.

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