Verlag: Boston, MA: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870, 1870
Anbieter: WellRead Books A.B.A.A., Northport, NY, USA
Small 8vo; decorative embossed black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; 300 pages; includes "Orthophony; or, the Cutivation of the Voice in Elocution." and "Russell's âAmerican Elocutionist.'"; with a supplement on purity of tone by G.J. Webb; black and white illustrations; light mark on spine and bumped corners with sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy.
Verlag: Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co., 1845, 1845
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Murdoch, James Edward / Russell, William. Orthopony or the Cultivation of the voice, in elocution. A manual of elementary exercises adapted to Dr. Rush's "Philosophy of the human voice," and designed as an introduction to Russell's "American elocutionist.". Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co., 1845, 336, 12pp., very good brown hardcover binding of the era with printed spine title "Elemenatary Elocution", light wear to be expected from a book of this vintage, previous owner's name: F. Hazelton. With an Appendix containing directions for the cultivation of pure tone by G. J. Webb, Boston Academy of Music. Printed by Freeman and Bolles, Washington Street, Boston. - the book was reprinted into the 1880s, but this edition dated 1845 appears to be the first and quite scarce. 12-page advertising section in rear of book is for the Bumstead's Series of Primary-School Books.