Elegant extracts
Subtitle: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining passages, from the most eminent prose writers
Publisher: Wells and Lilly
Published: 1826
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: English prose literature; Prose literature
Notes: Compilation attributed to Vicesimus Knox.

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Gift; Gilbert H. Montague; May 1950; 49-2220.

From the library removed from Emily Dickinson's home.

Bound in full calf, gilt spine. Imperfect: v. 2 and v. 6 wanting; boards from all volumes loose.
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1. Religious; title: v. 2. Preceptive, classical; title: v. 3. Orations and harangues. Parliamentary speeches; title: v. 4. Historical. Characters. Dialogues; title: v. 5. Narrative. Humorous and satirical; title: v.6. Miscellaneous, Chronology, &c.