SPRAGUE, Charles E..

Original edition. Small 8vo., hardback, white cloth lettered and ruled black. vii+119pp.. Other imprints Trübner, London and Winchell, Chicago. A good copy. Cloth somewhat age-darkened, spine head and corners snagged,neat owner names to f.e.p., clean and crisp inside. Charles Ezra Sprague (1842 –1912) was an American accountant, born in Nassau, New York. Member of the Academy of Volapük and President of the Institute of Accounts. A proponent of the constructed language Volapük, he wrote one of the first textbooks in English. This work includes a descriptive grammar, exercises, vocabulary and Key.