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.
Contributors: Scott, William, 1750-1804, comp.; Burgh, James, 1714-1775.; Walker, John, 1732-1807.
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
Format: Microform
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]þ́ B-Uœ́ Wœ́ X-2Mœ́ 2N℗ø.

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.

Evans 38475.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 38475)