Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand, composed of the speaking motions and discoursing gestures thereof : Whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions digested by art in the hand as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civil conversation, with types, or chyrograms, along-wish'd for illustration of this argument /
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | British and continental rhetoric and elocution ;
Reel 2, no. 12. |
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| Item Description: | Volume 2 title page: Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetorique ; with the canons, lawes, rites, ordinances, and institutes or rhetoricians, both ancient and moderne, touching the artificiall managing of the hand in speaking ; whereby the naturall gestures of the hand are made the regulated acessories or faire-spoken adjuncts of rhetorical utterance ; with types, or chirograms, a new illustration of this argument / by J. B. Philochirosophus [John Bulwer written in by hand]. London : Printed by Tho. Harper, and are to be sold by Richard Whitaker at his shop in [St.] Pauls Church-yard, 1644. Portion of imprint obliterated in filming. Imprint date 1644 written in by hand on title page of first volume. Marginal notes. Portions of words lost in gutter on some pages. Pages 152-153 appear to be missing in number only. Pagination irregular. Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 volumes in 1 (23 unnumbered pages, 187 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 16 unnumbered pages, 146 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : illustrations |