MORFILL, W. R.

Usual green decorated (including Polish eagle) cloth, title in gilt to spine and upper-board, xv+389pp., folding and other maps, in-text and full-page illustrations, lists, tables, index. A very good copy just slightly cocked. Clean and tight. William Richard Morfill (1834-1909) was the first Professor of Russian in Britain and contributed greatly to the study of Slavonic languages and all things Slav. He wrote a history of Russia in the same series as the present volume. Amongst other works, he wrote grammars of Russian, Polish, Serbia, Bulgarian and Czech.