WRIGHT, Joseph.
| Title | Grammar of the Gothic Language: containing the Gospel of St. Mark, Selections from the Other Gospels and the Second Epistle to Timothy with Grammar, Notes and Glossary. Second Edition. |
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| Publisher | Oxford Clarendon, |
| Date | 1930 |
| Book ID | 38506 |
Description
Original dark red buckram, ix[i]+366[i]pp..
A good, clean, tight copy.
First edition, 1910. Important work on the Gothic language by the eminent self-taught philologist Joseph Wright, who established the scientific study of dialect in Britain. He was was an important early influence on J. R. R. Tolkien and much admired by Virginia Woolf. Along with many grammars and other works on early English, Wright’s greatest achievement was the six-volume English Dialect Dictionary which has not yet been superseded.
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