Empires of the Word

Ostler, Nicholas

'A Language History of the Word'; introduced by David Crystal; first published in 2010; illustrations, maps, tables, figures - the Folio Society treatment for the history, variety, diversity, spread, practitioners of language and, according to David Crystal, the difficult one of why there is language.

Publisher: The Folio Society. First English edition thus 2010
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Printed cloth. Fine as issued without dustwrapper and in slipcase. All fine.


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