Author: RIPMAN, Walter. (RIPPMANN)
Title: A Handbook of the Latin Language: Being a Dictionary, Classified Vocabulary, and Grammar. Printed at Letchworth at the Temple Press.
Description: London and Toronto, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1930. 8vo.13x19.5cm, in original dust-wrapper, 803pp. 'Cheaper Edition' with price of 7/6 inside dust-wrapper. A very good tight copy in original cloth and d.w. Dust-wrapper lacks piece at spine tail with attendant fading to cloth below. An important and fairly scarce work on Latin by Walter Ripman (Rippmann), a dynamic and energetic figure who was a major proponent of foreign language teaching and the use of phonetics in schools. See "The Real Professor Higgins: The Life and Career of Daniel Jones" Collins, 1999.

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