Author Walker, John
Title A Rhetorical Grammar: or Course of Lessons in Elocution
Publishing Location London
Year 1785
Publisher Printed for the Author
Edition I
Number of Pages in-12, 348
Publishing Country GBR
Publishing Language ENG
Notes

COMPLETE TITLE: A Rhetorical Grammar: or Course of Lessons in Elocution. By J. Walker, Author of Elements of Elocution, &c.
PUBLISHER:
Printed for the Author, and sold by G. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand.

LATER EDITIONS:
Second edition: London, Printed for the Author, and sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1787.

Third edition: 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, Plain Rules for writing Orations, and speaking them in Public. The Third Edition, with Considerable Alterations and Additions, By John Walker, Author of the Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, Elements of Elocution, &c., London, Printed for the Author; and sold by G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, and T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1801.
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Fourth edition "with considerable Alterations and Additions": London, printed for J. Johnson, J. Walker, G. Wilkie, J. Robinson, G. Robinson, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807.

Fifth edition: London, s.n., 1812.

The text was published in the US in 1817: Boston, J.T. Buckingham, 1814 (First American Edition; Early American imprints. Second series; no. 33564).

Sixth edition: London, s.n., 1816.

Second edition published in the US: Boston, Published by Oumming and Hilliard, Univ. Press - Hilliard and Metcalf, 1822 (Second American Edition).
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Seventh edition: London, Cadell, 1823.

RECENT EDITIONS:
Reprints of the first edition:
- Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1969. (Anastatic reprint)
- Menston, Scolar Press, 1971. (Facsimile)


 

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