Language and The Study Of Language

Fair condition. Front hinge broken. Text block lightly discolored. Front flyleaf inscribed by two previous owners, one Boston 1869.

London: Trübner & Co, 1884. 8vo, pp. [2], xi, [1], 504; a very good copy in original terracotta cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Whitney was the esteemed American professor of Sanskrit at Yale, professor of modern languages there, and compiler of The Century Dictionary.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Fifth edition, 1885. Cloth hardcover with gilt title on spine, 505 pp., Good copy, previous owner's pencil notes and signatures to the outer pages (but not to the text), soiling to the outer pages and to the page-edges, light rubbing or wear to the tips and… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner, 1871. Later printing. Good. Brown cloth boards, no DJ., 505pp.

Charles Scribner & Company. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. New York, 1867. Brown cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; edges worn with boards exposed at corners and spine ends are worn and chipped; 8vo, 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall; Previous owner's name on first blank page; some marginal pencil marks; 489 pages.

N.Y., Scribner, Armstrong etc. 1872.. in-8°, XI, 503 S., 2 Bl. Vlgsanz., OLn. m. gldgepr. Rückentit., etw. abgegriff., Seitenkanten u. Ecken etw. bestoß., einige schwache Fingerfl. auf den vord. Seiten, S. 215 an Bindung etw. eingeriss., schwach gebr. / in-8°, XI, 503 pp., 2 bl. publisher's ads, orig. cloth w. gilt-stamped title to spine, slight traces of usage, edges… Read more about this item

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Paperback / softback. New. William Dwight Whitney (1827-94) was the foremost American philologist and Sanskrit scholar of the nineteenth century. This 1867 work brought recent German scholarship to a wider Anglophone audience. He deals with English and its variants (including American English), the Indo-European language family and methods of linguistic research.

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