Murray's Abridgment of English Grammar Improved: The Text Being Revised; and Illustrated with Copious Explanatory Notes; Interspersed with Parsing Exercises, Sentences to be Corrected, and Questions for Examination; To which is added, an Appendix, Containing Composition, Punctuation, Capital Letters, Abbreviations, etc. by the Rev. John Davis

Murray, Lindley; Davis, John

Published by Simms and McIntyre, Belfast, 1834

About this Item

[2], ii, 188 p.: 1 illustration; 15 cm. Remnants of original plain calf with later home repair using calf over spine and half of boards. Former owner Samuel Ohara wrote ownership poems on the front free endpaper, added his name in the some upper margins and on one occasion "Denamons School," and on a few pages added other notes, generally in the upper margins. This Belfast edition is very scarce. In Fair Condition: lacking most of original calf, with 19th-century amateur repair, which is split from the head of spine to middle; frequent corner creasing; light soiling throughout; fore-edge chipping on first and last leaves; lacking upper corner of last leaf with minor loss of printing; complete.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Murray's Abridgment of English Grammar Improved: The Text Being Revised; and Illustrated with Copious Explanatory Notes; Interspersed with Parsing Exercises, Sentences to be Corrected, and Questions for Examination; To which is added, an Appendix, Containing Composition, Punctuation, Capital Letters, Abbreviations, etc. by the Rev. John Davis
• Publisher: Simms and McIntyre, Belfast
• Publication Date: 1834
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Dictionaries & Language Study
  • Education, Schools, & Yearbooks
  • Children's Books