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Lessons in elocution: or A selection of pieces, in prose and verse
for the improvement of youth in reading and speaking
viii, 1 unnumbered page, 14-436 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm. (duodecimo)
by William Scott. ; To this edition are prefixed Elements of gesture. Illustrated by four elegant plates; and Rules for expressing, with propriety, the various passions and emotions of the mind.
Compiled by Scott from the work of others. "Elements of gesture" is taken from John Walker's Academic speaker; "Rules for expressing with propriety the various passions and emotions of the mind" from James Burgh's Art of speaking.
The "copper-plates" are in fact relief cuts, and are integral with the text.
Errors in paging: pages 213, 232 misnumbered 113, 332.
"Rules respecting elocution. Extracted from Walker's Speaker, and not published in any other edition of Scott's Lessons."--pages 50-60.
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 38475).