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 fifth American edition, from the fifth British edition. To this American edition are prefixed Elements of gesture, illustrated by four elegant copper-plates; and rules for expressing, with propriety, the various passions and emotions of the mind.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 27680
Publisher: Printed by William Young, bookseller, no. 52, Second-Street, the corner of Chesnut-Street.
Published: 1794
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-D⁶ F-2N⁶ 2O².

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

Evans 27680