The Academic Speaker, or, a selection of parliamentary debates, orations, odes, scenes, and speeches, from the best writers. Proper to be read and recited by youth at school. To which are prefixed, elements of gesture..
by WALKER (John)
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Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Dublin: Printed for William Porter, 1800. 12mo, [2], ii,[ 4], xv,[ 1], 268, [8]pp., 4 hand-coloured plates (plate 4 with closed tear to gutter margin), lacks front and back blank endpaper, title page dusty, renewed endpaper stuck to gutter margin of final leaf, modern calf, rubbed, a very good working copy of a rare work.
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- Forest Books (GB)
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- 40080
- Title
- The Academic Speaker, or, a selection of parliamentary debates, orations, odes, scenes, and speeches, from the best writers. Proper to be read and recited by youth at school. To which are prefixed, elements of gesture..
- Author
- WALKER (John)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Dublin: Printed for William Porter, 1800
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...