Vintage Choice Readings Robert McLean Cumnock 1913 Blue Cloth HC‎ Elocution

Title: Choice Readings.  Author: Robert McLean Cumnock, L.H.D., professor of rhetoric and elocution and director of the School of Oratory at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.  Publisher: A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago; 1913 new and definitive edition with earlier copyrights credited to Jansen, McClurg & Co. (1878–1883) and A. C. McClurg & Co. (1898–1913).  Format: Vintage early twentieth-century clothbound hardcover elocution and public reading anthology in English.  Binding: Blue cloth boards with gilt-stamped front cover and spine titles; the A. C. McClurg & Co. crest device appears on the title page.  Interior: Anthology titled Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainments and for the Use of Schools, Colleges and Public Readers with Elocutionary Advice, providing selections for platform use together with guidance in vocal delivery.  Topic/genre: Elocution, rhetoric, oratory, public speaking, dramatic reading, and performance instruction for educational and entertainment settings.  Language and printing: Text in English; printed in the United States by W. F. Hall Printing Company, Chicago, for A. C. McClurg & Co.  Identifiers: Pre-ISBN era volume with copyright lines for Jansen, McClurg & Co. (1878–1883) and A. C. McClurg & Co. (1898–1913); no modern ISBN, UPC, or EAN barcodes are present on the book.