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Norman Davis, rev.
Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Primer, ninth edition.
Published Oxford: Clarendon Press, 14th impression (previously issued 1980; 9th edn. first issued 1953; original edn. was 1882).
ISBN 0198111789;
ISBN-13: 9780198111788.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Cox & Wyman, Reading.
Size: 120x186x10mm.
Page count: vii,129pp.
Main languages: English; anthology section gives Old English texts without translation.
Overall condition fair: this copy has some scuffs and scratches on the covers, noticeable but not too severe, some wear on the edges with the corners starting to fray; printed on low-grade paper so pages yellowed with age; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £5.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £20.00]
Weight without packaging: 124g.

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Contents: Grammar;
Texts: From Gospel of St. Matthew; Old Testament pieces; Samson; From the Chronicle; Prefaces by Ælfric; King Edmund; From the OE translation of Bede; From 'Alexander's Letter to Aristotle'; Medicinal recipes.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of text section
Tables: throughout the grammar section
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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See also | Old English texts | Old English literature | Anglo-Saxon studies |
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