RIPMAN, Walter. RIPPMANN (Ed.)

A good, clean, tight copy of this scarce first edition. Original brown cloth lettered and decorated in black, title page in red and black, vi+126pp., publisher's lists to end-papers. Used; Very Good "... containing a detailed account of the reform method...". The editor of Dent's Modern Language Series was Walter Ripman (Rippmann), a dynamic and energetic figure who wrote and edited much on language teaching, speech and spelling. He was a major proponent for the use of phonetics in schools. See "The Real Professor Higgins: The Life and Career of Daniel Jones" Collins, 1999.