This set includes 117 titles published 1500-1900 and compiled by the Speech Association of America. The collection emphasizes the elocutionary aspects of rhetoric. It contains texts on preaching, grammar, oratory, pronunciation and the art of criticism in fields such as law and religion. About two-thirds of the titles are British and written in English or Latin. The remainder are continental, written in Latin, French or Italian. The individual titles are cataloged in CRLCATALOG.