Everybody's Speaker: Model Elocutionist and Entertainer by Hamersley, Lester Burton - 1909

Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, 1909. 1909 Edition, printing unstated. VERY GOOD. A clean, unmarked copy. Pages near fine. Hardcover of tan cloth is titled with dark-brown stamping on spine and front, with an oval printed pastedown on front featuring a portrait of a lovely woman. The cover is clean, lightly edgeworn, pastedown lightly rubbed. Binding and hinges intact and straight. The book is illustrated with black and white drawings as well as several full-page photographic plates of actors and actresses (unnamed), posed and in costume. Elocution basics with poems and prose pieces suitable for recitation practice. "A manual of vocal and physical culture, elocution and Delsarte based upon scientific and rational principles." 5 x 7-1/2". 269 pages plus plates.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Not Issued.