Lessons in Elocution: or, A selection of pieces in prose and verse, for the improvement of youth in reading and speaking, as well as for the perusal of persons of taste with an appendix, containing concise lessons on a new plan and principled of English grammar. to which are prefixed elements of gesture, .
Middletown CT: Thomas Spencer, Jr., 1818. Early US Printing. Hardcover. On title page stated First Middletown, from the Fifth Hartford Edition. Original full calf, 383 pages 4 illustrated plates. Covers worn and scuffed, solid binding. A nice, unsophisticated early 19thC copy, often reprinted by New England, New York and Philadelphia printers, of what first appeared in Edinburgh in 1779. This edition printed by T. Dunning. WorldCat list numerous copies by lots of American printers, but we could not find one published by Spencer of Middletown CT. Very Good. Item #012187
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