Author: FETRIDGE, W. Pembroke
Title: Harper's Phrase-Book; or, Hand-Book of Travel Talk for Travellers and Schools. Being a Guide to Conversations in English, French, German, and Italian, on a New and Improved Method. Intended to Accompany "Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers". With Concise and Explicit Rules for the Pronunciation of the Different Languages.
Description: New York, Paris, London, Harper, Galignani, Sampson Low. 1895. Small 8vo. 13x17cm. Original brown cloth, spine and upper board lettered gilt, edges ruled in blind. viii+309+(iv)pp. Harper's lists in back including advertising for the author's eye witness account of the Paris Commune. Brentano's label to lower paste-down. A good copy with very light wear or signs of use. Tight and clean. Vocabulary and phrases arranged conventionally in four columns qiving equivalents over a double page. As well as being a travel writer, Pembroke Fetridge ran a bookseller's and publisher's in Boston, Mass. He later moved to Paris where he witnessed the Paris Commune.

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