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 which are prefixed, Elements of gesture, illustrated by four elegant copper-plates; also Rules for expressing, with propriety, the various passions and emotions of the mind
Edition: The eighth American, from the fifth British edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 36285
Publisher: Printed for William Young, bookseller and stationer, n. 52 South Second-Street, Philadelphia.
Published: 1799
Place of publication: Whitehall [Pa.]
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.

Edition statement transposed; precedes "To which are prefixed ..." on title page.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2M⁶ 2N².

Error in paging: p. 353 misnumbered 335.

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

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