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. ; 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
Edition: The eighth American edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 38475
Publisher: Printed by Mower & Greenleaf, for Isaiah Thomas.
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Worcester, (Massachusetts)
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-U⁶ W⁶ X-2M⁶ 2N².

Errors in paging: p. 213, 232 misnumbered 113, 332.

The "copper-plates" are in fact relief cuts, and are integral with the text.

"Rules respecting elocution. Extracted from Walker's Speaker, and not published in any other edition of Scott's Lessons."--p. 50-60.

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