Chirologia: Or the Natural Language of the Hand and Chironomia: Or the Art of Manual Rhetoric

by John Bulwer and James W. Cleary

Bulwer's Chirologia... Chironomia is an extremely rare work. Only thirty-one copies have been located, and they are of dubious legibility of the printed text.

This first modern edition--the first in three centuries--is based on the first printing as sold by Richard Whitaker in 1644. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, but changes in punctuation and syntax have been conservative. Trans­lations for Greek and Latin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080930497X
• ISBN13: 9780809304974
• Release Date: March 1974
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"