Fables amusantes: avec Une Table Generale & Particuliere des mots, & de leur Signification en Anglois, Selon l'Ordre des Fables, Pour en rendre la Traduction plus facile a l'Ecolier
by PERRIN, Jean
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
A Londres [i.e. London]: Chez B. Law...T. Cadell...P. Elmsly, 1781. xvi, 220pp, [4]. With an engraved frontispiece and two terminal publisher's advertisement leaves. Contemporary sheep. Heavily rubbed, some surface loss to boards, loss to head and foot of spine. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP, several gatherings protruding slightly from text-block. An early edition of tutor and educational author Jean Perrin's (f. 1767-1798) remarkably popular French primer, a standard work in Anglo-American schoolrooms well into the nineteenth-century, following its first printing in 1771. All early editions are are, with this third being no exception; ESTC records copies at two locations in the British Isles (BL and Oxford), and one further worldwide (BSB). ESTC T66810.. Troisieme edition [i.e. third edition]. 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ17453
- Title
- Fables amusantes: avec Une Table Generale & Particuliere des mots, & de leur Signification en Anglois, Selon l'Ordre des Fables, Pour en rendre la Traduction plus facile a l'Ecolier
- Author
- PERRIN, Jean
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Troisieme edition [i.e. third edition]
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chez B. Law...T. Cadell...P. Elmsly
- Place of Publication
- A Londres [i.e. London]
- Date Published
- 1781
- Keywords
- Education
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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Antiquates Ltd
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Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
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