Gujarati exercises or a new mode of learning to read, write or speak the Gujarati language, on the Ollendorffian system
Autore: YOUNG, Robert (1822-1888)
Tipografo: Mission Press, London: Williams and Norgate. Bombay: Smith, Taylor and Co. Belfast: W. M'Comb. Edinburgh: Ogle and Murray
Dati tipografici: Surat, [1860 ca.]
8vo (178x100 mm). iv, 500 pp. Gujarati script alongside transliterations and English translations. Contemporary full cloth, yellow endleaves. On the front flyleaf ownership entry “CC Thornton Aug./65”. Title page soiled and browned, first quire detached, otherwise a good copy.
Rare (first?) edition of this textbook for English speakers of Gujarati language. The book uses the method of Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff (1803-1865), emphasizing conversational learning, repetition, and gradual, progressive sentence formation rather than mere rote memorization according to the system.
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