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ALIVA, R.
| Title | The Young Ladies' First French Book. with a vocabulary of the French and English, and the English and French of all the words used in the book. |
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| Publisher | London Hope and Co. |
| Date | 1854 |
| Book ID | 33490 |
Description
Original 1854 first edition. Generally scarce (see COPAC). Small 8vo., orig. cloth, blind stamped, xiv+222pp. Spine unlettered,and frayed in places, cloth bubbled and rucked, inner joint cracked, very occ. pencil annotations but on the whole, for a school primer, in good condition.
Used; Good
Rene Aliva also wrote ‘The French Language its own Teacher’ and the ‘Anti-Spelling Book’ “... calculated to be of immense utility to those young people who, disgusted by the pedantic manner in which French is taught...”
From the library of Lady Sybil Stewart.
