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The Comprehensive Speaker: Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, Lyceums, &c.; Carefully Selected from the Best Authors, with Notes by Henry T. Coates

The Comprehensive Speaker: Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, Lyceums, &c.; Carefully Selected from the Best Authors, with Notes by Henry T. Coates

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The Comprehensive Speaker: Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, Lyceums, &c.; Carefully Selected from the Best Authors, with Notes by Henry T. Coates

by Coates, Henry T

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Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1871. Hardcover. Good. 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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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
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Coates, Henry T
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Porter and Coates
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Philadelphia
Date Published
1871
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Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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