ABBOTT, Edwin A. [c.f. pseudonym A. Square ].

Title Via Latina: A First Latin Book. Including Accidence, Rules of Syntax, Exercises, Vocabularies, and Rules for Construing. [By the author of “Flatland”].
Publisher London Seeley and Co.,
Date 1901
Book ID 38648

Description

Early edition (145th thousand). Original maroon cloth, title gilt to spine, and stamped to upper board in blind with price 3/6. xvi+328pp.. Edges a little rubbed from use. “T? Darling Matchett’s” name in ink neatly to front endpaper, dated 1902. Abbott's best-known work is his 1884 - the ‘mathematical’ or science fiction novella “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions”. “Via Latina: A First Latin Book” was first published in 1880 and sold around the world.According to the Imperial War Museum database, the presumed owner of the book, Darling Matchett was a conscientious objector.
Price: £50.00

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