Origin, progress, and destiny of the English language and literature

Weisse, John

Verlag: J.W. Bouton, New York, 1879

Beschreibung

First edition, thick 8vo, pp. 701, [1], 34 (ads); original red cloth stamped in black, spine lettered in gilt, brown glazed endpapers; spine darkend, extremities rubbed; previous bookseller's price in ink on flyleaf, a few minor stains to front leaves, else interior very good. "Dr. Weisse's book is on one side a sort of 'epitome encyclopedia'of everything interesting which the doctor knows, and he seems to know something about almost everything . The reader is led through a vista of fourteen centuries of linguistic, literary and biographic progress, only to regret there are not three thousand years of it," (Allibone Supplement, II, p. 1501). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 41962

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Titel: Origin, progress, and destiny of the English...

Verlag: J.W. Bouton, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1879

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage