Title: The royal English-Danish grammar eller Grundig Anvisning til det Engelske Sprogs Kunststab
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> The royal English-Danish grammar eller Grundig Anvisning til det Engelske Sprogs Kunststab: hvorledes samme paa en læt og vis Maade skal læses, tales, strives og fiendes, i III tomer, bestaaende af 1. En fulstændig Engelsk Grammatica, 2. En grundig Anvisning at læse og tale det Engelske Sprog, 3. Et Begreb om det Engelske Sprog og dets Literature. Til Danske og Norske Læseres Nytte fremsat af Carl Bertram, Φιλόλογος. De Engelske Ord ere overalt accentuerede; hvilket ikke findes i nogen anden Grammatica. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 3 volumes in 1 8vo. pp. [22], 8, [ix], x-xxxii, [9]-268; ff, [3], cols. 158, p. [1]; pp. [3], 206. Calf. Gilded spine on 3 bars, red edges. Each volume has special title page. Vol. 3 lists the publisher as "L.H. Lillie." Head- and tailpieces; initials. Engraved vignette with royal arms at head of dedication to King Federic of Denmark and Norway. On page [ix] of volume 1, full-page engraved plate titled "Det Engleske Alphabet," numbered "pag. 2" and signed "C.B. fecit 1749." Stamp "AJF" (Arthur and Janet Freeman).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Bertram’s ‘Ethics from Several Authors’ (1751, see Bib# 4103118/Fr# 403 in this collection) and his ‘Grundig Anvisning paa en laet og vis Maade at Laese og Tale vet Engelske Sprog’ (Copenhagen, Trykt paa auctoris Bekostning af L.H.L., 1753) are bound between vols. 2 and 3.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Very scarce instructional work from the forger Charles Bertram, printed ‘for the Author’ in Copenhagen, where he lived and died without ever returning to England.
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