Americanisms; the English of the new world

by Schele De Vere, aximillian

$300 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New York: Charles Scribner, 1872. First edition, 8vo, pp. 2 , 685; original maroon cloth, gilt-stamped spine; a very good, sound, and clean copy. The author emigrated to Boston from Prussia in 1843 and on Longfellow's recommendation was elected professor of modern languages at the University of Virginia. His published studies on the genius and development of the English language were original and in advance of similar efforts elsewhere… He deserved

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