English Exercises, Adapted to Murray's English Grammar ...: Designed for the Benefit of Private Learners, as Well as for the Use of Schools by Lindley Murray (Creator) - 2012-08-01

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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Utica, NY: William Williams, 1819. Designed for the Benefit of Private Learners, as Well as for the Use of Schools. 156 pp. Original calf covers, scuffed w/ wear to extremities. Foxing and light stains throughout. Previous owner's names and notes in pencil on front and rear blank endpapers. Overall a nice, sturdy copy.. Hard Cover. Good or Better/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

York: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ; Darton and Harvey; Wilson and Sons (York), 1815. 21st ed. . Leather. Fair. 10.5 Cms x 17.5 cms. 222 pp. (9nc.prelims); 1820 dated sigs and pen scribbled to front pastedown and endpaper, front endpaper creased with bottom outer corner torn off (about a fifth of the leaf), top outer corner of t.p. excised and creasing towards outer edge + some ink spots, main textblock intact but several leaves creased, dog-eared at bottom outer corners + occ.grubbiness, rear endpaper missing and rear pastedown marked, both joints gone and covers both becoming detached, though not immediate danger of complete severance; both covers worn and grubby, spine almost gone gathering becoming exposed. Contents complete with nothing actually disbound. Ideal for book repair and rebinding. practice! BL catalogue dates 2nd ed. as 1771 (its earliest copy), with a '42nd' edition in 1833 and others in 1834 - they seem to have about a hundred copies! Note: quoted non-UK shipping… Read More

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Printed by T Wilson and R Spence, High Ousegate York, for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme ; Darton & Harvey, London ; for Wilson & Spence, York ; and for Constable & Co, Edinburgh , 1806. 11th edition.. Hardback. Sheep, G+. 227pp+1pp publishers advert, one gather badly foxed, leather rubbed along the edges & upper hinge cracked but holding, corners bumped, a fair copy. Partly erased ownership inscription dated 1808 with the surname Turberville still legible. Later reprint of one of the most popular & reprinted books of the early 19th century. Lindley Murray [ 1745 - 1826 ] an American Quaker who moved to York, England & began writing English grammars & textbooks once in England. They went on to be the best selling books in the World.