The Infancy of Speech and the Speech of Infancy
210pp, eight black and white plates. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Text block edges starting to tan. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has loss at spine heel several closed tears, sunning and wear, price u clipped. Sets out to prove that the speech of primitive communities throws light on modern speech disorders and that modern speech disorders suggest how primitive man spoke. 8vo.