An Explanatory Pronouncing Dictionary of the French Language, (in French and Englilsh); Wherein the exact Sound and Articulation of every Syllable are distinctly marked (according to the Method adopted by Mr. Walker, in his Pronouncing Dictionary.) To which are prefixed, the Principles of the French Pronunciation; Prefatory Directions for using the Spelling Representative of every Sound; and The Conjugation of the Verbs, Regular, Irregular, and Defective, with their true Pronunciation

[French-to-English Dictionary] EX LIBRIS JANE CARLYLE, INSCRIBED BY THOMAS CARLYLE, with an autograph letter from Alexander Carlyle tracing the provenance. A New, Revised edition. Duodecimo in half-sheets (17 x 11cm), pp.[2] 40 [unpaginated]. Black ink ownership of Jane Ballie Welsh, Haddington, to flyleaf. Further black ink inscription from Thomas Carlyle, also to flyleaf: 'To William Fingland, Thornhill: | T.C. | Templand, 29 March, 1842.' Also with an autograph letter dated 28th February 1924 on headed note-paper from Alexander Carlyle (1843-1931), nephew of Thomas, loosely inserted. Contemporary brown morocco, recently rehinged and repaired to spine, with gilt titles to red label. Housed in a fleece-line orange buckram-covered slipcase. Bookplate of James Fingland, son of the recipient William Fingland, to front pastedown. Clean and complete, with a touch of light occasional spotting. Wear to boards and spine, now carefully restored to an attractive, robust condition. Very good. Alexander Carlyle, who acted as his uncle's chief advocate on the public stage after his death in 1881, building a formidable archive of correspondence later gifted to the National Library of Scotland, here deftly unravels the provenance of this French dictionary: Gifted by Thomas just after the death of his mother-in-law Grace at her home in Templand, near Dumfries, in March 1842 to "a poor boy of Dr. Russell's, whom she [Mrs. Welsh] liked, who staid here three nights when one of her miserable servants failed, a Tardy's Dictionary and an old Livy; I remembered the Tardy, and thought a charitable orphan heart best deserved it.". …