PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION, AND SUITABLE EXERCISES

Authors: Wilson, John

Categories: Language

Fiction

Verse

Prose

Year: 1801

Publisher: Printed by G. Caw, for the Author

Pagination: [i-iii], iv, [v], vi-vii, [viii] , [9]-436p.

Dimensions: 18.3 x 10.5 cm

Illustrations: Yes

City: Edinburgh

Document Type: Book

Language: English

Printer: Geo. Caw, Libberton-Wynd, Edinburgh

Seller: P. Hill, Arch. Constable, J. Guthrie, A Guthrie, W. Laing, Ogle & Aikman, W. Dickson, J. M'Cleish, and J. Scrimgeour, Edinburgh ; W. Coke, and G. Peattie, Leith ; J. & A. Duncan, Glasgow ; A. Forsyth, Ayr ; T. Hill, Perth ; and R. Ogle, London.

Advertisements: [ii] Quote from the Monthly Review for May 1800.

Preface: [iii]-iv 'PREFACE.'

Other Content: [v], vi-vii, [viii] 'CONTENTS.'

Binding: Brown, full calf. Back cover loose, fornt and back heavily marked, scratched. SPINE: [gilt-tooled] '(double line) | '(double line) | PRINCIPLES | OF | ELOCUTION | (double line)' (on red calf) | (double line) | (double line) | (double line) | (double line)'.

Edges: Trimmed

Marginalia: various markings

Notes:

Full-title: PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION, AND SUITABLE EXERCISES ; OR, ELEGANT EXTRACTS, IN PROSE AND VERSE. COMPREHENDING NUMEROUS EXAMPLES OF NARRATION, DESCRIPTION, INSTRUCTION, AND THE DIFFERENT SPECIES OF ELOQUENCE. INTERMIXED WITH REMARKS ON THE VARIOUS KINDS OF COMPOSITION, AND RULES FOR READING AND RECITING THEM.