| Description |
xiv, 95, [5] p. (last 5 p. blank) : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Haslewood books
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| Note |
Title vignette and ornamental border. |
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Statement of responsibility, imprint date, and series title from half-title. |
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"The dialogues here reprinted were the work of Claudius Hollyband and Peter Erondell, two Huguenot refugees who taught French for their livelihood in Elizabethan London."--p. vii. |
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Dialogues, in English only, selected from the author's conversation manuals by M. St. Clare Byrne. |
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"Of this edition, printed ... by the Westminster press, 725 numbered copies have been issued, of whicj 75 copies ... on English handmade paper."--P. [iv], t.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Dialogues from Hollyband: I. School and schoolboys. II. The citizen at home -- Erondell's French garden -- Bibliographical and textual notes -- Glossary. |
| Note |
Binding: red paper printed in sage over boards, top edge rough-trimmed, deckled edges; green dust-jacket printed in black; t.p. vignette repeated above text; titles in series listed on p. [4] of cover. |
| Local Note |
Library copy is no. 558; as issued, pristine. Engraved ex-libris with monogram and signature: H. Leslie Hendricks on front paste-down. |
| Subject |
England -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800.
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England -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.
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French language -- Conversation and phrase books.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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| Genre or Form |
Limitation statements (Publishing) -- England -- 20th century.
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Bookplates (Provenance) -- England -- 20th century.
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Dust jackets (Binding) -- England -- 20th century.
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Deckled edges (Paper) -- England -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Erondelle, Pierre, fl. 1586-1609.
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Byrne, M. St. Clare (Muriel St. Clare), 1895- editor.
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Hendricks, H. Leslie, former owner. ZNS
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| Added Title |
Elizabethan home discovered in two dialogues |
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