English past and present

by Richard Chenevix Trench

$25 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

New York: Redfield, 1855. 12mo, pp. ix, 213, 15 ; original brown cloth, covers blind-ruled, gilt-lettered spine; spine ends chipped, top 1 1/2 inches of upper cover starting to detach from spine, corners a bit bumped and worn; interior near fine. 14 pp. of publisher's advertisements bound in rear. Trench popularized a rational and scientific study of English, and suggested and laid out the overall plan for the OED in his 1857 pamphlet, On Some Deficiencies

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