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The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected From the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, With a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To Which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By William Enfield, LL.D. Lecturer on the Belles Lettres in the Academy at Warrington
by ENFIELD, William [LL.D] (1741-1797)
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About This Item
London: Joseph Johnson, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1774. [Education] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[xxxii] 376. Brown full calf, upper board and spine rebound. Blind ruling to boards. Red label with gilt title to spine. Raised bands. Top edge green. Heavy toning to leaves, especially preliminaries and rear. Frequent light foxing, and a few annotations in black ink. Owner's inscribed name cut from corner of title page. Other inscription in black ink to flyleaf. Split front hinge. Toning to edges. Upper board slightly rubbed to joints and edges. Original lower board shows more signs of age, discolouration, and cracking. Overall, a very good preservation. The elocutionary movement of the eighteenth-century sought to make the art of speech a formal discipline in schools. This book, exemplary of the movement's wishes, comprises a collection of literary extracts paired with an essay on elocution.
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- The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected From the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, With a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To Which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By William Enfield, LL.D. Lecturer on the Belles Lettres in the Academy at Warrington
- Author
- ENFIELD, William [LL.D] (1741-1797)
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Publisher
- London: Joseph Johnson, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1774
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Inscribed
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Title Page
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