The Comprehensive Speaker: Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, Lyceums, &c.; Carefully Selected from the Best Authors, with Notes by Henry T. Coates
Published by Porter and Coates, Philadelphia, 1871
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA
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Condition: Used - Good
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672 p.; 20 cm. Calf spine with gilt spine title and embossed decoration. Dark brown cloth over boards. Dark brown endpapers. Oval stamp on title page: "Property of the Board of Public Education 1st School district Penna." Contents: Selections in Prose: Patriotic and Popular -- Senatorial -- Eulogistic and Personal -- Forensic -- Moral and didactic -- Humorous and Satirical --Descriptive and Dramatic -- Selections in Poetry: Narrative -- Patriotic and Martial -- Personal -- Reflective and didactic -- Humorous -- Miscellaneous -- Dramatic Selections. In Good Condition: loss at ends of spine; front joint starting to separate at head; old damp stain at upper edge of blank leaf following front endpapers; pp. 387-400 partially detached; minor soiling on a few pages.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Comprehensive Speaker: Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, Lyceums, &c.; Carefully Selected from the Best Authors, with Notes by Henry T. Coates
- Author
- Coates, Henry T.
- Publisher
- Porter and Coates, Philadelphia
- Publication year
- 1871
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller catalogs
- American History, Poetry
Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA
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