Author: MURRAY, Lindley.
Title: [Igirisu Shobunten] Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar.
Description: n.p. n.d [186-?]. 18x12cm publisher's wrapper with title label (rubbed). Quite good. ¶ This is the first part and I know a second part exists because Waseda has a copy - but not this first part. Worldcat finds neither and a hunt through Japanese libraries doesn't help much. No-one seems clear on when this appeared but it is likely to be with the beginning of government schools and is a good partner for the version of Murray's spelling book published by the Tokugawa Kaiseidzio school in 1866.

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