GALIGNANI. (MONTUCCI, SANESE)

Title Galignani's Grammar and Exercises, in Twenty-Four Lectures on the Italian Language; in which the principles, harmony, and beauties of that Language are, by an Original Method, simplified and adapted to the meanest capacity and the scholar enabled to attain with ease and facility a competent knowledge of the language without the help of any master. Fourth Edition. Enlarged and improved by Antonio Montucci. Sanese.
Publisher London Boosey and Sons
Date 1823
Book ID 21656

Description

Original publisher's boards, cloth spine, xxiv+342pp. Upper board detached but present, fore-edges a little age soiled. Contemporary neat annotation and modern but very neat inscription to f.e.p.. A good, clean tight copy. Giovanni Galignani 1757-1821, was an Italian newspaper publisher who lived both in London and Paris. He started Galignani’s Messenger, a paper mentioned in Turgenev and by other contemporary authors.
Price: £16.00