Latin at Sight (1895) - Edwin Post - Clean, Tight Copy - Ginn & Co.

Edwin Post

Published by Ginn & Company, 1895

About this Item

Post, Edwin. Latin at Sight: With an Introduction, Suggestions for Sight-Reading, and Selections for Practice. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1895. First Edition. Small octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt spine titling and blind-stamped upper board. A well-preserved and tight copy of Post's classic turn-of-the-century Latin reader, designed to train students in the increasingly popular pedagogical method of sight-reading. The book includes an extensive introductory section on how to approach Latin at sight, followed by more than one hundred graded passages from Caesar, Cicero, Phaedrus, Aulus Gellius, Eutropius, Victor, and others, each with running vocabulary support and concise grammatical notes. Post (1859-1930), longtime Professor of Latin at DePauw University, composed the text after years of classroom experimentation beginning in 1886, intending it for both teachers and advanced learners seeking fluency rather than rote translation. Condition: Very Good, unusually clean for an 1895 Ginn school text. Binding tight and square; hinges strong. Mild rubbing and light edge wear to cloth, with a few small surface marks; corners lightly bumped. Pages clean and bright throughout with only faint, scattered foxing toward the preliminaries. Contemporary penciled ownership ('R. W. Wood') on front endpaper; no writing in text. A crisp, attractive example, far above the norm for this title. A solid first edition of a significant late 19th-century Latin pedagogy tool, increasingly sought by collectors of classical education, historical linguistics, and Ginn & Company academic imprints.

Seller Inventory # NF.POS.1895.2

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Latin at Sight (1895) - Edwin Post - Clean, Tight Copy - Ginn & Co.
• Publisher: Ginn & Company
• Publication Date: 1895
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction
  • Educational