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The garden of eloquence : conteyning the figures of grammer and rhetorick, from whence maye bee gathered all manner of flowers, coulors, ornaments, exornations, formes and fashions of speech, very profitable for all those that be studious of eloquence, and that reade most eloquent poets and orators, and also helpeth much for the better vnderstanding of the holy Scriptures. Set foorth in Englishe, by Henry Pecham Minister

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1577]
Call number: 69049
Creator: Peacham, Henry (1546-1634)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (4to)
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