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An Explanatory Pronouncing Dictionary of the French Language in French and Englilsh; Wherein the exact Sound and Articulation of every Syllable are distinctly marked according to the Method adopted by Mr. Walker in his Pronouncing Dictionary. To which are prefixed the Principles of the French Pronunciation; Prefatory Directions for using the Spelling Representative of every Sound; and The Conjugation of the Verbs Regular Irregular and Defective with their true Pronunciation

rif. 61321London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1814. French-to-English Dictionary EX LIBRIS JANE CARLYLE INSCRIBED BY THOMAS CARLYLE with an autograph letter from Alexander Carlyle tracing the provenance. A New Revised edition. Duodecimo in half-sheets 17 x 11cm pp.2 40 unpaginated. Black ink ownership of Jane Ballie Welsh Haddington to flyleaf. Further black ink inscription from Thomas Carlyle also to flyleaf: 'To William Fingland Thornhill: T.C. Templand 29 March 1842.' Also with an autograph letter dated 28th February 1924 on headed note-paper from Alexander Carlyle 1843-1931 nephew of Thomas loosely inserted. Contemporary brown morocco recently rehinged and repaired to spine with gilt titles to red label. Housed in a fleece-line orange buckram-covered slipcase. Bookplate of James Fingland son of the recipient William Fingland to front pastedown. Clean and complete with a touch of light occasional spotting. Wear to boards and spine now carefully restored to an attractive robust condition. Very good. Alexander Carlyle who acted as his uncle's chief advocate on the public stage after his death in 1881 building a formidable archive of correspondence later gifted to the National Library of Scotland here deftly unravels the provenance of this French dictionary: Gifted by Thomas just after the death of his mother-in-law Grace at her home in Templand near Dumfries in March 1842 to "a poor boy of Dr. Russell's whom she Mrs. Welsh liked who staid here three nights when one of her miserable servants failed a Tardy's Dictionary and an old Livy; I remembered the Tardy and thought a charitable orphan heart best deserved it. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 unknown

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