The philosophy of the human voice: embracing its physiological history; together with a system of principles, by which criticism in the art of elocution may be rendered intelligible and instruction, definite and comprehensive.
Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliott, 1833. Second edition, enlarged, 8vo, pp. [4], 432; text illustrations of a sort of musical notation modified to represent pitch in speech; full contemporary calf, gilt-ruled spine, gilt board edges; light rubbing, light foxing throughout, owner's signature on free endpaper, good and sound. James Rush was a physician and psychologist who concerned himself largely with social and scientific interests. He "represented that mid-stage in the modernization of a science in which one theorizes about avoiding theory and establishing facts." (DAB) Upon his death he bequeathed his estate to the Library Company of Philadelphia to establish the Ridgway Branch. An influential study on elocution that went through six editions by 1867. Sabin 74251. Item #54451
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