Item details
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Topic
Literature & Fiction Essays & Speeches
Year Printed
1904
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Region
North America
Language
English
Place of Publication
Chicago
Subject
History
Signed
No
Personalized
No
Publisher
A. C. McClurg & Co.
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A Selection From the World's Great Orations
by Sherwin Cody
1904, A. C. McClurg
Hardcover, 518 pages
With selections from Demosthenes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Girolamo Savonarola, Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau, William Pitt the Elder, Edmund Burke, Charles James Fox, Henry Grattan, Patrick Henry, Daniel Webster, Henry Ward Beecher and more. Also included are shorter selections from many other great orators of their time.
Pages uninscribed, however, first two pages each bear a small faint stamp from previous ownership. Minor wear to coves and spinem slight bumping to corners. Cover shows some slight imperfections, dings, marks, etc. Page edges are original ragged-cut style seen in similar printings of the era.