The Delsarte Speaker: Or Modern Elocution, Student Edition
by Northrop, Henry Davenport
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No jacket
- Seller
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Meadows of Dan, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Cincinnati, Ohio: W. H. Ferguson Company, 1895. Not stated. Hardcover. Poor/No jacket. 512 pages, illustrated with color frontispiece and black and white plates and drawings. "For Young Folks and Amateurs Containing a Practical Treatise on the Delsarte System of Physical Culture." Blue-green illustrated cloth binding with gilt titles on front cover and spine, decorative end papers. Gilt mostly rubbed off, heavy edge wear with bumping and fraying of corners and spine ends, back cover scrubbed, some spotting and scratches on cover, hinges split showing webbing with cover almost detached from book, interior pages a little tan, text block seems tight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Scraps of American History (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 01744
- Title
- The Delsarte Speaker
- Author
- Northrop, Henry Davenport
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Not stated
- Publisher
- W. H. Ferguson Company
- Place of Publication
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1895
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- elocution, collections, poetry, prose, fiction,children
- Bookseller catalogs
- Textbooks;
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Scraps of American History
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Meadows of Dan, Virginia
About Scraps of American History
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....