A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
by Fowler, H. W
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
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About This Item
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press/Franklin Library, 1978. Small octavo volume bound in full dark blue leather, lettered and decorated in gold. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker bound-in and silk moire endpapers. 4 raised bands. 725pp., Issued by the Franklin Library in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Oxford University Press. Second edition, tenth printing. A volume in the Oxford References Classics of the English Language series. Limited edition of 7.500 numbered copies. This copy out-of-series, not numbered. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Fine. Scans on request.. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by Henry W. Fowler, is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing. Ranging from plurals and literary technique to the distinctions among like words (homonyms, synonyms, etc. ), to foreign-term use, it became the standard for most style guides that followed — thus, the 1926 first edition remains in print despite the existence of the 1965 second edition, and the 1996 and 2004 printings of the third edition.
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- Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009114
- Title
- A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
- Author
- Fowler, H. W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press/Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- New York and Oxford
- Date Published
- 1978
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Binding;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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