Rhetorician (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fine. - Sarah Chauncey Woolsey's and Adams Sherman Hill's autographs penned together with those of Elizabeth B. Brown's and Ms. Susie Hutchins' on a 3 inch high by 4-1/8 inch wide piece of paper clipped from a daily birthday book calendar with the date "January 30" printed in red along the top Signed "Sarah C. Woolsey" and "A.S. Hill" . Several lines from an inspirational poem are printed in black on the verso. Near fine. The American children's author Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-1905) served as a nurse during the Civil War after which she started to write under the pen name Susan Coolidge. She is best known for her classic children's novel "What Katy Did".The American newspaper journalist and rhetorician Adams Sherman Hill (1833-1910) was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard University. He is best known for his works "The Principles of Rhetoric", "Foundations of Rhetoric" and "Our English".…

First Edition. Provenance; Taylor Institution copy bequeathed by Robert Finch of Balliol College. Full, sumptuous polished vellum over bevelled boards with contrasting aniline calf labels. Raised bands with gilt cross-bands etc. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and toned as with age. Remains an uncommonly good example. Further details on rerquest. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1464 pages; Language Note: Greek and Latin in parallel columns; Latin preliminaries and index. Notes: With [44] final pages of index, and final leaf containing printer's device. Added t.p engraving; again, the publisher's device. Numerous errors in pagination; nos. 1177-78 omitted, nos. 1453-54 repeated. Description: [68], LXXIIII, [6], 1464, [44] p. ; cm. 10 Kg. …

Language: Latin.