A grammar of the anglo-saxon tongue, with a praxis.
Copenhagen.
Printed by S. L. Moller, 1830.
New edition, enlarged and improved by the author.
8vo.
lx, [4], 224pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Later green half-cloth, marbled paper boards. A trifle rubbed and bumped. Bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley and pencilled gift inscription to FEP.
The new edition of Danish linguist and philologist Rasmus Kristian Rask's (1787-1832) primer to Anglo-Saxon grammar, translated by Benjamin Thorpe. Rask oversaw the translation himself, amidst several other publications on Danish grammar and ancient chronology.
From the recently dispersed library of Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.
£ 100.00
Antiquates Ref: 20305
From the recently dispersed library of Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.
