Elements of Elocution: in Which the Principles of Reading and Speaking Are Investigated...with Directions for Strengthening and Modulating the Voice, so As to Render it Varied, Forcible, and Harmonious... In Which the Principles of Reading and Speaking Are Investigated... with Directions for Modifying the Voice
by Walker, John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Bennett & Walton. Good. 1811. reprint. Full leather. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 451 pages; Full calf leather binding with gilt struck titling to red morocco label at spine. Contents complete and generally neat with expected mild to moderate toning to page stock. Front board detached; rear boar tenuous in the joint. Leather crazed and cracking to spine panel with possible pva application to stabilize chipping. Several copperplate engravings have moderate foxing. Handsome engraved portrait frontis of the author. Endpages with prior ownership inscriptions. Complete and generally decent but with rough areas to the binding. Good only .
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- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37955
- Title
- Elements of Elocution: in Which the Principles of Reading and Speaking Are Investigated...with Directions for Strengthening and Modulating the Voice, so As to Render it Varied, Forcible, and Harmonious... In Which the Principles of Reading and Speaking Are Investigated... with Directions for Modifying the Voice
- Author
- Walker, John
- Format/Binding
- Full leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bennett & Walton
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1811
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
Glossary
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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