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Hoyle, Frances P.
The World's Speaker, Reciter and Entertainer, for Home, School, Church & Platform
Philadelphia, World Bible House,
1905, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, A compendium of literary & theatrical entertainments of the Victorian Era. For all ages. Illustrated with 8 color plates & half tone engravings showing attitudes, special poses etc. Quotations from famous people: Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, William Penn, Milton, Pope, Dante, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Cicero, Confusius & others. Music Programmes; Humorous and Dialetic; Patriotism and War; Little Folk's Speaker (Children's recitations); Shakespearean Department; Temperance readings; Recitations, Readings, Plays, Drills: explained by special pose pictioures with rules for physical culture, training of the voice and use of gesture, according to the Delsarte system . Delsarte formulated certain principles of aesthetics that he applied to the teaching of dramatic expression. He set up rules coordinating the voice with the gestures of all parts of the body. Green cloth boards decoratively illustrated, red title panels to front & spine, gilt lettering, theatrical photo. Mild wear. Upper & lower spine ends bumped with light fraying. Floral e.p. color frontispiece. sm 4 to, 484 pages
(Public, Speaking, Acting, Theatre, Home, Entertainment, Antique, Speaking, Books, Theatre, Reciting, Victorian, Era, Plays, Delsarte, System, Elocution, Temperance, Readings, Speaches, For, Children, Quotations, Literary, Quotations, Victorian, Entertainment, Music, Victorian, Era, Vintage, Books) Cat No. 856m.
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20.00
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Strong, Roy, and Oman, Julia Trevelyan.
Mary Queen of Scots
New York, Stein and Day,
1972, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Fine/Very Good Plus, An illustrated & narrative portrait of the Mary Queen of Scots and her days in exile. Strong & Oman use a brillant patterns of both word and image as the evoke the Queen in her day to day life: the splendor of her dresses and jewels, her love of small animals, her passion for poetry and history, her creation of marvellous embroideries. Inventory of Spectacles and Evocations & image index to rear. Grey boards. White illustrated DJ not price clipped. One inch closed tear to rear upper edge all else clean & tight. No writing or inscriptions. First ed. 8 vo, 80 p
(Mary, Queen, Of, Scots, Biography, England, British, Monarcy, History, Of, England, French, History, Scotland) Cat No. 857m.
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12.50
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Strong, Roy, and Oman, Julia Trevelyan.
Mary Queen of Scots
New York, Stein and Day,
1972, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Fine/Very Good Plus, An illustrated & narrative portrait of the Mary Queen of Scots and her days in exile. Strong & Oman use a brillant patterns of both word and image as the evoke the Queen in her day to day life: the splendor of her dresses and jewels, her love of small animals, her passion for poetry and history, her creation of marvellous embroideries. Inventory of Spectacles and Evocations & image index to rear. Grey boards. White illustrated DJ not price clipped. One inch closed tear to rear upper edge all else clean & tight. No writing or inscriptions. First ed. 8 vo, 80 p
(Mary, Queen, Of, Scots, Biography, England, British, Monarcy, History, Of, England, French, History, Scotland) Cat No. 857m.
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12.50
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Strong, Roy, and Oman, Julia Trevelyan.
Mary Queen of Scots
New York, Stein and Day,
1972, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Fine/Very Good Plus, An illustrated & narrative portrait of the Mary Queen of Scots and her days in exile. Strong & Oman use a brillant patterns of both word and image as the evoke the Queen in her day to day life: the splendor of her dresses and jewels, her love of small animals, her passion for poetry and history, her creation of marvellous embroideries. Inventory of Spectacles and Evocations & image index to rear. Grey boards. White illustrated DJ not price clipped. One inch closed tear to rear upper edge all else clean & tight. No writing or inscriptions. First ed. 8 vo, 80 p
(Mary, Queen, Of, Scots, Biography, England, British, Monarcy, History, Of, England, French, History, Scotland) Cat No. 857m.
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12.50
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Strong, Roy, and Oman, Julia Trevelyan.
Mary Queen of Scots
New York, Stein and Day,
1972, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Fine/Very Good Plus, An illustrated & narrative portrait of the Mary Queen of Scots and her days in exile. Strong & Oman use a brillant patterns of both word and image as the evoke the Queen in her day to day life: the splendor of her dresses and jewels, her love of small animals, her passion for poetry and history, her creation of marvellous embroideries. Inventory of Spectacles and Evocations & image index to rear. Grey boards. White illustrated DJ not price clipped. One inch closed tear to rear upper edge all else clean & tight. No writing or inscriptions. First ed. 8 vo, 80 p
(Mary, Queen, Of, Scots, Biography, England, British, Monarcy, History, Of, England, French, History, Scotland) Cat No. 857m.
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12.50
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