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Hood, Tom
The Rhymester, or, The Rules of Rhyme. A Guide to English Versification. With a Dictionary of Rhymes, An Examination of Classical Measures, And Comments Upon Burlesque, Comic Verse, and Song-Writing.
D. Appleton and Company
New York, 1888


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208pgs+advertisements. Good to Very Good condition green cloth hardcover, decorated endpapers, with gilt lettering and decoration to front board and spine. Owner name and date on front blank page otherwise clean and unmarked. Some rubbing to cloth at edges and corners. All edges gilt. Hinges sound, but some loosening of middle signatures, pages remain attached but slightly uneven with rest of text block. An overall attractive copy of this antiquarian guide to creating rhyming verse. Edited, with additions by Arthur Penn. Chapters: Verse Generally, Classic Versification, Guides and Hand-Books, Of Feet and Caesura, Meter and Rhythm, Of Rhyme, Of Figures, Of Verse and Comic Verse and Vers de Societe, Of Song-Writing, Of the Sonnet, Of the Rondeau and the Ballade, Of Other Fixed Forms of Verse, A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme (by Ben Jonson), A Dictionary of Rhymes. #1216.

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