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1809 signed fourth edition 'carefully corrected, and considerably improved,' Printed by G.E. Miles, Sold by Longman Hurst, Rees and Orme (London), 4 1/2 x 7 inches tall full leather bound, viii, [8], 506, [5] pp. Signed by author on verso of title page (to prevent piracy). Front board detached but present. Covers rubbed and edgeworn. Top 1 1/2 inches of backstrip lacking. One leaf (pp. 301-302) only attached at top. Pencil marks to last page of text, last page of index and rear free-endpapers. Cancelled bookplate of Mount Saint Mary College to front pastedown. Otherwise, apart from a few creases to page tips, mild age-toning to paper and an occasional miniscule bit of foxing or staining, a good copy of this scarce guide to Italian grammar, now nicely preserved and presented in a Brodart rare book box, with the title page on the front, and title to the side, secured with velcro closures. OCLC locates only two copies, at Johns Hopkins University and the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane. ~TTT~ Gaetano Ravizzotti was tutor to the children of the second Viscount Palmerston (part of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy), and in the elder son Henry, later prime minister (to whom this work is dedicated), the 'foundations were laid of excellent French and good Italian' (ODNB). Seller Inventory # TTT-0641-781
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