A plea for the queen's english: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling.
London.
Strahan, 1864.
Second edition, tenth thousand.
8vo.
xvi, 287pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, green morocco boards, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp.
A revised edition of Dean of Canterbury and biblical scholar Henry Alford's (1810-1871) impassioned appeal for the preservation of 'correct' English.
£ 50.00
Antiquates Ref: 31682
