Babel or The Past, Present, and Future of Human Speech
Language: English
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., London, 1930
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United KingdomEdinburgh Books
AbeBooks seller since September 18, 2006
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 30.00
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1930. First edition. 93pp. plus a 20-page publisher's catalogue. This is a volume in the publisher's 'To-Day and To-Morrow' series. The author, Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget (1869-1955), was a British barrister and amateur scientific investigator, who specialised in speech science and the origin of speech. This book is a plea for the abandonment of laissez-faire in the development of the English language and for basing its development upon certain laws of speech. 'Everyman' described the work as "An exceedingly entertaining book, in which he traces the history of speech to its origin. But it is to his speculations as to the future of speech, especially English, that readers will turn with greatest interest." The book is bound in the original dark purple paper covered boards with a paper title label on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and light soiling to the boards and fading with some scraping to the spine. There is wear with a little loss to the paper covering the corner tips and wear down the spine edges. The spine ends are lightly bumped. The contents are tight and clean with a little scattered light foxing and noticeable browning to the endpapers, half-title page and last page of the catalogue at the end of the book. There is an inscription reading "From the Pagets Xmas 1932" on the front free endpaper (presumably family of the author), and a different name and date (1950) written on the front fixed endpaper.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Babel or The Past, Present, and Future of Human Speech
- Author
- Paget, Sir Richard
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., London
- Publication year
- 1930
- Condition
- Very Good
- Signed
- Association copy
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First Edition
- Dimensions
- 6.4" Tall
- Seller catalogs
- Philosophy & Related, Science
Edinburgh Books
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since September 18, 2006
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