The Philosophy of the Human Voice: Embracing its Physiological History; together with a System of Principles, by which Criticism in the Art of Elocution may be Rendered Intelligible, and Instruction, Definite and Comprehensive...
Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliott, 1833. [4. adv], xxx, [31]-432 pp. Illus. with woodcuts and engravings. 8vo. Full contemporary calf, morocco spine label. Second edition, enlarged. Spine and boards scuffed and worn, head chipped,front joint tender, light scattered foxing, faint dampstain along fore edge, occasional light pencil marginalia, overall very good. Sabin 74251. Amer. Imprints 21025. Cordasco 30-0778. This ed. not in NLM (listing only 1st ed., 1827). Item #35199
...To Which is Added a Brief Analysis of Song and Recitative. Son of the famous physician-statesman, Benjamin Rush, and younger brother of the statesman Richard Rush, James Rush (1786-1869) was a physician, a physiologist, a psychologist and a thinker who sought to improve the American condition. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, graduated from Princeton in 1805, and received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1809. This is his first work and it was quite a success in its day, in that it provided "a medical approach to the subject [of Human Voice] followed by a detailed treatise on elocution." [DAB]. The book went through several editions between 1827 and 1893 and has been called by some the best work on the subject in the language.
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