INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE A Critical Survey of the History and Methods of Comparative Philology of the Indo-European Languages

Leipzig/ London: Breitkopf and Hartell/ Trubner & Co, 1882. 1st English Language Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 14.5 Cm x 23 Cm. series list+t.p.+xiv+142, ex-Birkbeck Colle Library but minimally marked: colourless sm.oval blind-stamp over-stamped 'withdrawn' bottom fr.free end-paper, same stamp, uncanceled, bottom corner t.p. and once bottom corner of page in text, tin trace of removed loan-sheet rear free end-paper, no other internal lib. markings at all; trace of an open vertical fold from series list fading out by about p.11, have erased extensive pencilled marginal lines which were present up to about p.90, thus now unmarked although v. faint traces of these may occasionally remain. Dark slate-grey cloth covers clean and virtually unworn, gilt-lettered sp. with gilt lib.logo top, v.faint trace of lib.label removal to covers adjacent to lower sp. but not on sp.itself (except, I expect, through a magnifying glass). Despite lib.provenance genuinely a very good copy of this scarce and important work, to which the author added a Preface to the English Translation. I also note that the translator, Channing, entered it in the office of the Librarian of Congress in 1882.