A Collection of Telugu Proverbs Translated, Illustrated, and Explained; Together with Some Sanscrit Proverbs Printed in Devanâgarî and Telugu Characters. [bound with] A Supplement to the Collection of Telugu Proverbs Containing Additional Proverbs, an Index Verborum, and an Index to the European Proverbs Quoted in Illustrations

CARR, Captain M.W.

Published by Madras: Printed and sold at the Christian Knowledge Society's Press.; London: Sold by Trübner and Co., 1868

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Two volumes bound in one. First edition. 8vo. vi, (ii), 487, (1); (iv), 148 pp. Recent tan half morocco over the original green cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered dark red label to one panel, lettered direct to another and dated at the foot. Inscribed on the front flyleaf "To the Rev. J. C. Knight Anstey, a small acknowledgement of his work in connexion [sic] with the preparation of the survey & catalogue of Telugu Christian Literature 1917", with underneath the ink stamp of the Christian Literature Society for India (Madras Branch) along with the signature of its secretary Joseph Passmore dated "Madras Feb. 15 1918", Anstey's ink stamp appears on the title page and his annotations appear at intervals. Printed on colonial paper with the leaves quite brittle, early leaf with marginal loss and now laid down on tissue, two leaves of the index to the second work with small holes with slight loss of text.

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• Title: A Collection of Telugu Proverbs Translated, Illustrated, and Explained; Together with Some Sanscrit Proverbs Printed in Devanâgarî and Telugu Characters. [bound with] A Supplement to the Collection of Telugu Proverbs Containing Additional Proverbs, an Index Verborum, and an Index to the European Proverbs Quoted in Illustrations
• Publisher: Madras: Printed and sold at the Christian Knowledge Society's Press.; London: Sold by Trübner and Co.
• Publication Date: 1868
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