TY - BOOK AU - Kerhervé,Alain TI - William Gilpin’s Letter-Writer SN - 9781443868013 AV - PR3664 -- .K474 2014eb U1 - 808.6 PY - 2014/// CY - Newcastle-upon-Tyne PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing KW - Gilpin, William, -- 1724-1804 KW - Letter writing -- Early works to 1800 KW - Commercial correspondence KW - English language -- Rhetoric KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- INTRODUCTION -- EDITORIAL POLICY -- LETTERS -- NOTES -- APPENDIX -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF NAMES N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1800514 ER -