Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand, composed of the speaking motions and discoursing gestures thereof
Subtitle: Whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions digested by art in the hand as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civil conversation, with types, or chyrograms, along-wish'd for illustration of this argument
By: by J. B. Gent. Philochirosophus.
Series: British and continental rhetoric and elocution -- Reel 2, no. 12.
Publisher: Printed by Tho. Harper...
Published: 1644
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Gesture; Hand; Oratory -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: The naturall language of the hand.; Chironomia.; The art of manuall rhetorique.
Notes: Vol. 2 title page: Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetorique ; with the canons, lawes, rites, ordinances, and institutes or rhetoricians, both ancient and moderne, touching the artificiall managing of the hand in speaking ; whereby the naturall gestures of the hand are made the regulated acessories or faire-spoken adjuncts of rhetorical utterance ; with types, or chirograms, a new illustration of this argument / by J. B. Philochirosophus [John Bulwer written in by hand]. London : Printed by Tho. Harper, and are to be sold by Richard Whitaker at his shop in [St.] Pauls Church-yard, 1644.

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Imprint date 1644 written in by hand on title page of first vol.

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Portions of words lost in gutter on some pages.

Pages 152-153 appear to be missing in number only.

Pagination irregular.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1953. On reel 2 of 16 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (British and continental rhetoric and elocution ; Reel 2 , no. 12).

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