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FETRIDGE, W. Pembroke
| Title | Harper's Phrase-Book; or, Hand-book of Travel Talk for Travellers and Schools. Being a guide to conversations in English, French, German, and Italian, on a new and improved method. Intended to accompany “Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers". With concise and explicit rules for the pronunciation of the different languages. |
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| Publisher | New York, Paris, London Harper, Galignani, Sampson Low. |
| Date | 1895 |
| Book ID | 38223 |
Description
Small 8vo., 13x17cm.. Original brown cloth, spine and upper board lettered gilt, edges ruled in blind. viii+309+(iv)pp.. Harper’s lists in back including advertising for the author’s eye witness account of the Paris Commune. Brentano’s label to lower paste-down.
A good copy with very light wear or signs of use. Tight and clean.
Vocabulary and phrases arranged conventionally in four columns qiving equivalents over a double page. As well as being a travel writer, Pembroke Fetridge ran a bookseller’s and publisher’s in Boston, Mass.. He later moved to Paris where he witnessed the Paris Commune.
