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![Via Latina:
A First Latin Book. Including Accidence, Rules of Syntax, Exercises, Vocabularies, and Rules for Construing. [By the author of “Flatland”]. Image](../../assets/uploaded/images/large/38648.jpg)
ABBOTT, Edwin A. [c.f. pseudonym A. Square ].
| Title | Via Latina: A First Latin Book. Including Accidence, Rules of Syntax, Exercises, Vocabularies, and Rules for Construing. [By the author of “Flatland”]. |
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| Publisher | London Seeley and Co., |
| Date | 1901 |
| Book ID | 38648 |
Description
Early edition (145th thousand). Original maroon cloth, title gilt to spine, and stamped to upper board in blind with price 3/6. xvi+328pp.. Edges a little rubbed from use. “T? Darling Matchett’s” name in ink neatly to front endpaper, dated 1902.
Abbott's best-known work is his 1884 - the ‘mathematical’ or science fiction novella “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions”. “Via Latina: A First Latin Book” was first published in 1880 and sold around the world.According to the Imperial War Museum database, the presumed owner of the book, Darling Matchett was a conscientious objector.
