Lessons in elocution: or, A selection of pieces in prose and verse
Subtitle: for the improvement of youth in reading and speaking, as well as for the perusal of persons of taste. : with an appendix, containing concise lessons on a new plan, and principles of English grammar
By: By William Scott, teacher of English, writing, and accounts, and author of A new spelling, pronouncing, and explanatory dictionary of the English language, &c
Edition: First Hartford edition, corrected and improved.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 29477
Publisher: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin.
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Hartford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Elocution
Notes: Preface dated: Edinburgh, Jan. 6, 1789.

Dedicated by the compiler to the Earl of Erroll.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2L⁶ (2L6 blank).

Error in paging: p. 103 misnumbered 301.

"Elements of gesture."--p. [379]-406, is taken from John Walker's Academic speaker and includes "Rules for expressing, with propriety, the principal passions and humours, which occur in reading, or publick sheaking [sic]," taken from James Burgh's Art of speaking.

Evans 29477

Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 2593