Stille de l'orateur [microforme]

1647 · Paris : M. Collet · 16 pictures

A 1647 Paris rhetoric treatise on oratory, published by M. Collet and preserved in microform from a Canadiana.org copy, aimed at students and speakers of the period. Its pages are dense, justified letterpress text in a roman face with a few small woodcut-style hand diagrams showing gestures of the hand and fist; a designer might borrow the tight, ruled text blocks, the marginal rules, and the schematic gesture drawings as a model for instructional layouts.

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