From Sanskrit to Brazil. Vignettes and essays upon languages

by Eric Partridge

$325 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1952 . First edition, 12mo, pp. 14 , 146; about fine throughout in a very good jacket. This copy inscribed To Vernon Watkins who conveys dignity with delight & inextricably mingles form and thought. Gratefully, Eric Partridge, 17-xi-61. In this copy Partridge has altered the word languages on the title page as well as on the dust jacket to read 'language, and he has also scribbled through the price on the dust jacket; on the

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