Author: [LANPHIER (William Henry)]
Title: The Academic Orator; or Elocutionary Elucidations theoretically arranged; selected from the Best English Writers, and disposed under proper heads, with references to the passions, and every word marked with its proper inflexion: intended to accelerate the Improvement of the Students pf Upper Sunbury School, in Reading and Speaking. To which is prefixed an Essay on Enunciation and Delivery, wherein are explained the Elements of Gesture, and the Manner in which the Passions affect Countenance, Voice and Body. The whole illustrated by plates.
Description: London: Printed by R. Brown, 1819. First edition, 12mo, [71], 72-368pp., 5 numbered plates, closed tear half way across f2, some minimal worming (mostly single wormholes) in lower blank margins, but not affecting the text, lxx, cont. mottled sheep, joints cracked, slightly rubbed, small piece missing from head of spine, hinges cracked. Lanphier was also the author of "An outline of the System of Education adopted at the School of Upper Sunbury, in Middlesex.", 1816, with a later edition in 1821. Not recorded by JISC or OCLC.

Keywords: EDUCATION LINGUISTICS