Lessons in elocution: or, A selection of pieces in prose and verse
Subtitle: for the improvement of youth in reading and speaking
By: By William Scott
Edition: The third American edition, from the fifth British edition. To this American edition are prefixed Elements of gesture, illustrated by four copper-plates; and rules for expressing, with propriety, the various passions and emotions of the mind.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 46286
Publisher: Printed by William Young, bookseller, no. 52, Second-Street, the corner of Chesnut-Street.
Published: 1791
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
Subjects: Elocution
Notes: "Elements of gesture" 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.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2N⁶ 2O² (T3 missigned F3).

Errors in paging: p. 362, 428 misnumbered 262, 418; p. 370 first character inverted.

Bristol B7824

Shipton & Mooney 46286