Author: WALKER, JOHN (1732-1807)
Title: A rhetorical grammar : in which the common improprieties in reading and speaking are detected, and the true sources of elegant pronunciation are pointed out. With a complete analysis of the voice. Showing its specific modifications, and how they may be applied to different species of sentences and the several figures of rhetoric. To which are added, outlines of composition, or, plian rules for writing orations, and speaking them in public
Description: London : Printed for G. Wilkie; Cadell and Davies; Longman. Hurst. Rees. Orme and Brown 1816. 6th ed. with considerable alterations and additions. Very good copy in the original. full tree calf. Gilt cross-bands etc. Minor. generalized wear to the bands and panel edges. Remains uncommonly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. by John Walker. Physical description; xii. iv. [5]-373. [1 p. 2 fold. leaves of plates ; 22 cm. Notes; Author's name appears after edition statement on t.p. Subjects; Elocution. Oratory. Rhetoric. Voice. Weight in Kg appr.:

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