A Tractate On Language With Observations On The French Tongue Eastern Tongues And Times And

by Gordon Willoughby Gyll

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London: published for the author by Henry G. Bohn, 1860. Second edition, augmented and revised, 8vo, pp. xii, 388pp. plus errata; fingernail-size chip from top of spine not affecting any lettering , hinges cracked; all else good in original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine gilt. A translator of Cervantes and a historian of Buckinghamshire, this appears to be the author's only philological work, drawn partially from that of Prichard and Welsford, chiefly as it

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