Buy this book on-line Anderson, Marjorie, and Blanche Colton Williams : Old English Handbook(London: George Harrap, no date [1936])
8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and in blind to upper cover; front endpaper map; pp. vii + (i) + 503; frontis. facsimile of Old English manuscript. Upper fore-corners of boards a little turned; spine very slightly crumpled at head; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown; endpapers, edges and outermost leaves somewhat foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere; some discreet pencilled marginalia. Very good condition. The Harrap imprint of this work is uncommon. Printed by the Riverside Press of Massachusetts, OCLC suggests shortly after the more readily encountered Houghton Mifflin version of 1935. A grammar, accompanied by readings from examples of Old English literature. "Old English Handbook had its inception some years ago in the desire of [Marjorie Anderson] to present to the student a volume of selections from Pre-Conquest manuscripts. ... She hoped ... that the Pre-Conquest scene, in all its variety, might be conveyed by placing before the student the vocabulary of the Old English layman." Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Anderson, Marjorie, and Blanche Colton Williams : Old English Handbook. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including incunabula, antiquarian books, libri antichi, used books and first editions. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |