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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

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

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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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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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Bookseller
Antiquates Ltd GB (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

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A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Spine
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Gatherings
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