Author Engel, Johann Jakob  -  Siddons, Henry
Title Practical Illustrations of Rethorical Gesture and Action
Publishing Location London
Year 1807
Publisher Richard Phillips
Edition I
Number of Pages in-8, IV-387
Publishing Country GBR
Publishing Language ENG
Notes

COMPLETE TITLE: Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action; Adapted to the English Drama: From a Work on the Subject by M. Engel, Member of the Royal Academy of Berlin. By Henry Siddons. Embellished with numerous Engravings, expressive of the various Passions, and representing the Modern Costume of the London Theatres.

Translation/adaptation edited by Henry Siddons of Ideen zu einer Mimik by Engel (see).

LATER EDITIONS:
Second edition: Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action; Adapted to the English Drama: From a Work on the Subject by M. Engel, Member of the Royal Academy of Berlin. By Henry Siddons. Embellished with Sixty-nine Engravings, expressive of the various Passions and representing the Modern Costume of the London Theatres. Second Edition, Improved, London, Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1822. This second edition, revised also by Siddons, includes the Essay on Gesture by Sharpe.
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RECENT EDITIONS:
Reprint of the second edition: New York, Blom, 1968. (Anastatic reprint) 


 

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