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William Gilpins letter-writer / by Alain Kerhervé.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kerhervé, Alain, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Letter writing--Early works to 1800.
- Letter writing.
- Commercial correspondence.
- English language--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.
- Gilpin, William.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Among the numerous letter-writing manuals which were printed in eighteenth-century Britain, a few were authored by such famous novelists as Samuel Richardson or Daniel Defoe. The present volume is a first-time edition of an autograph manual devised by William Gilpin, commonly known as one of the theoreticians of the picturesque, which he intended either for individual use in the schools he was teaching or for publication. The manual was exclusively devised for boys and men. Although its pri...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; INTRODUCTION; EDITORIAL POLICY; LETTERS; NOTES; APPENDIX; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF NAMES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 15, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-6517-6
- 1-4438-6801-9
- OCLC:
- 892243464
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