Early Modern English (The Language Library series)
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360pp. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Upper text block edge a little dust marked. Internally neat, clean , bright and tight. In its original, slightly shelf worn, dust jacket, a little sunned over spine and gently rubbed at spine ends. Examination of early modern English and account of its development between around 1500 and 1700, a neglected period in linguistic history and one in which English reached its maturity as a language.