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Hardcover. Zustand: VG/GD/ND. y First Edition Thus Revised, 1st. Imp. HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. thus, reprint. * Imp: 1st. Date of Publication: 1926* Publisher: George Routledge & Sons Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Purple textured cloth boards, gilt title to spine, faded & slightly worn. No bumps, minor rubs, slight shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. Some slight damp marks to both boards. GOOD* Jacket condition: No Dust Wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Given as an elocution prize from Aldro School in July 1927 (inscribed to ffep.). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks & age to end-papers, top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: A number of b/w line drawings and diagrams within text at front.* Pages: 685 pp. text. xxviii pp., indices of authors and first lines & blank pages at rear.* Description: "The Reciter's Treasury of Verse - Serious and Humorous". This is one of the best books written on elocution. The original 1904 Edition by Ernest Pertwee is complete in this 1926 Edition, and is edited and revised by the author's son: Ernest Guy Pertwee, Examiner in Elocution for the Associated Board of Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, and Examiner for Guildhall School of Music. Ernest Guy Pertwee has also added extra poems to this edition, including works by Francis Thompson, James Elroy Flecker, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, Thomas Hardy, Vachel Lindsay & many more. Illustrated in the introduction with diagrams showing the organs of the body involved in articulation and pronunciation.* A NEAR VG+ text reprint copy of the 1st thus. with some minor age and wear but no dust jacket.* 1926-01-01. n.