A Critical Inquiry into the Scottish Language with a view of illustrating the Rise and Progress of Civilisation in Scotland.
A Critical Inquiry into the Scottish Language with a view of illustrating the Rise and Progress of Civilisation in Scotland.
A Critical Inquiry into the Scottish Language with a view of illustrating the Rise and Progress of Civilisation in Scotland.

A Critical Inquiry into the Scottish Language with a view of illustrating the Rise and Progress of Civilisation in Scotland.

  • Francisque-Michel
  • Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons 1882

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NO 145 OF 500 COPIES, 4to, pp. xiii, [i], 457, [1]. Original quarter black roan, red cloth boards, front board blocked centrally in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Spotting to endpapers and first few leaves. Leather somewhat rubbed, front board unevenly sunned, extremities a little rubbed and bumped. Bookplate of Abington to pastedown, cancelled Aberdeen University Library bookplate to flyleaf.

Notes

The author's inquiry is specifically concerned with the French origins of Scottish words and phrases. This copy bears a cancelled library bookplate but no other signs of circulation.

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