Author: BOILEAU, D..
Title: The Nature and Genius of the German Language: Displayed in a More Extended Review of Its Grammatical Forms Than Is to Be Found in Any Grammar Extant; and Elucidated by Quotations from the Best Writers.
Description: London, Printed for T. Boosey and Sons.; and Treuttel and Würtz. 1820. 8vo. later half leather in library buckram, vii[ii]+424pp. folding table. High quality early 19th C. paper in later library binding. Decorative bookplate ex libris 'VD' - 1920s- 1930s? to paste-down. Later sturdy binding, probably cropped, back-strip mainly detached but present. Internally excellent - lovely paper and print. Appears unused and would benefit from sympathetic re-binding. Scarce first edition.

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