Prospectus for The Virginian Orator.

• imprint_number: 1808.028
• title: The Virginian Orator, being a variety of original and selected poems, orations … to improve American youth in the …useful arts of eloquence and gesture. By Thomas E. Birch.
• sequence_number: 28
• year: 1808
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Samuel Pleasants
• author: Birch, Thomas Erskine (1763-1821).
• notes: Birch was an English émigré, who fled Britain during the Revolutionary War, made his way to Virginia, and became a noted educator and Methodist minister in Wythe County; as text here notes, his proposed publication was designed to advance school-children's oratorical skills.
  Sheet lacks colophon; as Samuel Pleasants printed the finished work for Birch, this subscriber circular was most likely printed by him as well, so the attribution here.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • Thomas Erskine Birch
  • Samuel Pleasants, Jr.

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