Title english grammar language (4 resultados)

Probable first edition (per matching dates upon title and copyright pages). 240 pages. Hardcover: H 18.75cm x L 11.75cm. Original full dark brown calf leather binding; boards rubbed and stained with worn corners, slight splitting at head of front joint with scuffing lengthwise, slight short splitting at heel of rear joint too, shallow chipping at spine heel, spine's original black title label edge-worn with some flaking and slight loss to otherwise bright gilt lettering. Strong fading to toned marbled edges, text block corners at confluence of top edge and fore-edge worn and abraded with some leaf corners creased; varied staining, toning, and foxing to interior pages; strong creasing to front flyleaf; old pencil signatures on front free endpaper and title page with dated inscription on rear flyleaf. One quire slightly pulled so that its fore-edge fractionally extends past rest of text block; binding otherwise firm. A good antiquarian copy. OCLC does not record any earlier editions than this 1849 imprint but does have citations for a twenty-first revised edition by 1853 which, in the least, indicates that the book was a successful seller.…

[title continued]: added, six lessons, intended to prevent statesmen from using false grammar, and from writing in an awkward manner. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches), unpaginated. Original cloth-backed drab boards, spine with printed paper label. Binding browned, label browned.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. [3]-1082; fine copy in original brown cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, and retaining a torn dust jacket with 2 big chips out, but retaining the glaring error in the titling of the book on both the spine and upper panel of the jacket where it states "Dictionary and Grammar of the Eastern Island," instead of Easter Island. Punta Arenas bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper. Three brief vocabularies precede this, but Fuentes's effort is the first comprehensive dictionary and grammar of Pascuan, the language spoken on Easter Island.…

Woodblock title in Japanese, text in English. Printed on doubled leaves. 70, [1, errata] pp. 1 vols. 12mo (18 x 13 cm). OCLC: 41116190 (National Diet Lib., LC, Yale) Stitched in paper covers. Print titled label (worn). With early annotations in Japanese in a minute hand; last leaf marked in another hand. Some soiling, paper flaw in back cover. Very good Woodblock title in Japanese, text in English. Printed on doubled leaves. 70, [1, errata] pp. 1 vols. 12mo (18 x 13 cm).…