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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. ... / by William Enfield, ... ; embellished with four elegant plates ...

Accession number
PML 129060
Creator
Enfield, William, 1741-1797.
Published
London : Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard ..., 1797.
Credit line
Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory of Elizabeth M. Riley, 2002.
Notes
Imprint continues: "By whom only the genuine and complete Edition is published."
Frontispiece signed Stothard del. Heath sculp, Published as the Act directs by J. Johnson in St. Pauls Church Yard 1 August 1780.
Four plates after Stothard, one engr. by William Blake.
Blake plate, "Clarence's Dream," facing p. 306, is in second state.
Eight-page bookseller's list at end.
Description
lx, 436, [8] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., front. ; 18 cm. (12mo.)
Provenance
Inscribed John Harris March 27th 1798; from the Charles Ryskamp Collection.
Binding
Contemporary brown sheep.
Classification
Department