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; and Rules for expressing, with propriety, the various passions and emotions of the mind
Edition: The sixth American, from the fifth British edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 47910
Publisher: Printed by William Young, bookseller, no. 52, Second-Street, the corner of Chesnut-Street.
Published: 1796
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.

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

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ F-2N⁶ 2O².

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

Bristol B9696

Shipton & Mooney 47910