Eton French grammar and exercise book.. Exercises for writing and vivâ-voce practice, preceded by grammar and syntax rules and full tables of the verbs. Being a new edition of Tarver's 'French exercises,' entirely re-arranged and re-written, with copious additions.
Francis Batten Cristal Tarver (b.1828/9)
Category
Books
Date
1871
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3116517
Summary
Part 2 of 2.
Bibliographic description
2 v.. 18cm. Part II only. Part I shelved elsewhere. Annotated towards the end in ink and pencil. With 3 folded sheets of blue paper with French exercises loosely inserted between pp. 480 and 481. Provenance: Inscribed on upper flyleaf in pencil: "G.N. Curzon [i.e. George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Viscount Scarsdale (1859-1925)] Rev. W. Dod [i.e. C. Wolley Dod (1826-1904), housemaster at Eton]. Eton Coll: Bucks". Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full grey cloth, blind fillets forming a border, gilt lettering on upper cover. Edges sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
Francis Batten Cristal Tarver (b.1828/9)