• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Lessons in elocution: or A selection of pieces, in prose and verse : for the improvement of youth in reading and speaking. 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
  • Contributor: Burgh, James [Other]; Walker, John [Other]; Brynberg, Peter [Other]; Scott, William [Other]
  • Published: Wilmington [Del.]: Printed and sold by Peter Brynberg, M,D,CC,XCVII. [1797]
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Issue: The seventh American edition
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (viii, [1], 10-383, [1] p., [4] leaves); ill; 12°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Elocution
  • Reproduction series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: "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
    English Short Title Catalog, W13407
    Evans, 32814
    Reproduction of original from Library of Congress
    Rink, E. Delaware, 465
    The "copper-plates" are in fact relief cuts, on leaves integral with the text