Chapters on language
first edition
1865 · London
by Farrar, Frederic
London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1865. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 308, 32; original blue cloth (a bit soiled), gilt-lettered spine, brown glazed endpapers; spine darkened, ends chipped and worn; joints cracked, contemporary ownership signature on half title page, else interior very good. Tipped in announcement "By the same Author. Preparing, and will soon be ready, A Brief Greek Syntax"; contemporary bookseller's ticket on front pastedown. A controversial inquiry into the origin of languages by the author of THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE (Lon., 1861) "solely addressed to serious students" (Inventory #: 42284)