Advanced course of composition and rhetoric: a series of practical lessons on the origin, history, and peculiarities of the English language, punctuation, taste, the pleasures of the imagination, figures, style, and essential properties, criticism, and the various departments of prose and poetical composition; illustrated with copious exercises
by Quackenbos, G.P
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872. 12mo, pp. 454, [2]; contemporary half black morocco over dark green cloth, decorative blind-tooled spine with gilt lettering; extremities rubbed and worn, interior fine. Publisher's advertisements printed on endpapers and bound in rear. Copyright date 1854.
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- Advanced course of composition and rhetoric: a series of practical lessons on the origin, history, and peculiarities of the English language, punctuation, taste, the pleasures of the imagination, figures, style, and essential properties, criticism, and the various departments of prose and poetical composition; illustrated with copious exercises
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- Quackenbos, G.P
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- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1872
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