Author: WALKER (John):
Title: A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin and Scripture Proper Names; in which the words are accented and divided into syllables.... To which are added Terminational Vocabularies of Hebrew, Greek and Latin Proper Names....concluding with observations on the Greek and Latin Accent and Quantity.... The Second Edition, with large Additions.
Description: London, Printed for the Author, by A. Wilson...and sold by G. and J. Robinson...and T. Cadell and W. Davies..., 1804. Large 8vo, 225 x 140 mms., pp. xxxii, 283 [284 - 286 adverts], engraved portrait (by Heath after Barry), original boards, uncut; front cover detached, rear cover holding on for dear life, most of paper missing from spine. Walker (1731 - 1803) started his career as an actor, working for David Garrick, but turned to teaching in 1769, and started his own school of elocution in 1771. His orthoepic work was so influential that by the end of the 19th century, few educated people would have wanted to pronounce their words in any way other than that sanction by Walker. The first edition of this work was published in 1798 and this second edition, published posthumously, is considerably revised and expanded.

Keywords: pronunciation elocution prose


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