The speaker: or, miscellaneous pieces, selected from the best English writers, and disposed under proper heads, with a view to facilitate the improvement of youth in reading and speaking. A new edition, corrected and enlarged. To which are prefixed two essays: I. On elocution. II. On reading works of taste. By William Enfield, LL. D. Embellished with four elegant plates.
William Enfield (1741-1797)
Category
Books
Date
1795
Materials
Collection
Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 3063765
Summary
Bibliographic description
lx,436,[8]p., [4] leaves of plates ; 12mo. Provenance: inscribed on endpaper "Mrs C F Shaw in pleasant memory of her visit to bath Oct / 23 from Cedric Chvers mayor" [i.e. Charlotte Frances Shaw, née Payne-Townshend (1857-1943) from Cedric Chivers (1853-1929)]. Binding: nineteenth-century vellum, lettered and ruled in black. [Binding presumably by Chivers].
Makers and roles
William Enfield (1741-1797)