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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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
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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
- Author
- Coates, Henry T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Porter and Coates
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1871
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; American History;
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- Calf
- 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...
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...