Punctuation Reduced to a System. How to Stop and when to Stop. Fifth Edition.

DAY (William)

Published by London: John Ollivier 50 Pall Mall, 1849

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12mo, 141 x 85 mms., pp. vi, [7] - 143 [144 "Opinion of the Press"], contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine blocked in gilt, bound by Potter & Son York, with the bookplate of Andrew Fairburn on the front paste-down end-paper; end-papers a little foxed, but a very good to fine copy. Day was editor of the Jersey Argus, and the author of Slavery in America shown to be Peculiarly Abominable (1841). Manfred Görlach, in An Annnotated Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English (1998), records a third edition in 1843, a sixth in 1853, and a seventh in 1862. OCLC World Cat locates a second and a third edition in 1847, but with no other listings. There are a few copies in British libraries, and three in United States libraries: NYPL, Trinity College (Hartford), and Pennsylvania. Seller Inventory # 8722

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Title: Punctuation Reduced to a System. How to Stop...

Publisher: London: John Ollivier 50 Pall Mall

Publication Date: 1849

Binding: Hardcover