Marsh, George P.

The origin and history of the English language, and of the early literature it embodies

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. Revised edition, large 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 574; publisher's dark olive cloth, gilt-lettered spine, black glazed endpapers; ex-Navy Yard Library with usual internal markings and bookplate, extremities, especially spine ends, chipped and rubbed; textblock mostly very good. "The lectures which compose the present volume were delivered at the Lowell Institute...in the autumn and winter of 1860-1861" - p. [v]. Item #42185

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