New guide to modern French conversation : or, the student's and tourist's French vade-mecum; containing a comprehensive vocabulary; and phrases and dialogues onevery useful or interesting topic: 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
1867
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 3206915
Summary
Bibliographic description
vii, [1], 220 p. ; 15cm. Provenance: Inscribed on upper flyleaf: "MacCullough" [crossed out] "Scott" [poss. Thomas James Scott (1828-1907), Rector of Chilton Foliot (Wiltshire), father of Louisa Matilda Scott (1863-1951) m. Philip Yorke II of Erddig in 1902]. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's quarter green straightgrained morocco on marbled paper boards. Gilt lettered direct on spine. Marbled edges.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
Makers and roles
Alain Auguste Victor de Fivas