New guide to modern French conversation : or, the student's and tourist's French vade-mecum; containing a comprehensive vocabulary; and phrases and dialogues on a variety of useful or interesting topics: together with models of letters, notes, and cards; and comparative tables of the British and French coins, weights and measures; the whole exhibiting, in a distinct manner, the true pronunciation of the French language /
Alain Auguste Victor de Fivas
Category
Books
Date
1881
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3201209
Summary
Bibliographic description
vii, [1], 244, 16 p. ; 15cm. Provenance: Inscribed on verso flyleaf: "M.H.Crewe [? Mary Adeline Harpur Crewe (1834-1930), younger daughter of Sir George Crewe, 8th Bt, and Jane Whittaker] fr. A.G.H. Crewe [? Alice Georgiana Harpur Crewe, daughter of Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Bt, and Georgiana Stanhope Lovell] Aug. 2, 1883". Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's half red sheep over marbled paper boards, half gilt fillet. Publisher's advertisement on endpapers, marbled edges. Spine missing, lower board loose, board edges worn.
Makers and roles
Alain Auguste Victor de Fivas, author