Grierson Linguistic Survey Of India

Grierson, George Abraham (Government of Bengal). Bihar Peasant Life, Being a Discursive Catalogue of the Surroundings of the People of That Province, With Many Illustrations From Photographs Taken by the Author. Prepared Under Orders of the Government of Bengal. Calcutta, The Bengali Secretariat Press, & London, Trübner, 1885.

Crown quarto. Pp. 4, 7 (addenda & corrigenda), vi, 431, xvii (appendix), cliii (index). Frontispiece map, hand-coloured, depicting the Province of Bihar. Plus 39 full-page lithographic plates, after photographs by the author. With many photoxylograph illustrations to text (wood engravings from photographs). Includes an appendix and extended index. Text block clean, with some traces of use, bit shabby in binding. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full pebble-grain navy-blue cloth, sides blind stamped, spine gilt, some wear at extremities, bit shaken. In all a good, desirable copy. - - First edition. A PRESENTATION COPY, presented by the Secretary of State in Council of India, State Office, London, with a bookplate to that effect. And with the contemporary inscriptions, "Presented to Mr. C. Baumgarten, July 19, 1887", and another one, signed by the recipient, "Received by me Oct. 1, 1887 (...)", all on first paste-down. George Abraham Grierson (1851-1941). A British civil servant, a Fellow of the British Academy, he spent much of his life in British India. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1873 and was in charge of the Linguistic Survey of India from 1898. He was responsible for producing the monumental Linguistic Survey of India, an important work in the history of sociolinguistics research in India, which took 30 years to complete and was published in 11 volumes (1903-1928). Scarce.

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G.A. Grierson (Compiled and Edited): Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vols. In 19 Parts, Delhi, India Low Price Publications 2005
ISBN: 81-7536-361-4 New

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LINGUISTIC SURVEY OF INDIA, Vol. 1,1:. Introductory, by G. A. Grierson. Kalkutta, Government of India, 1927.

Folio. 3 Bl., 18, 517, (1) S., 6 teils gefalt. Karten. OLwd. (MODIN 1468)

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G.A. Grierson: Linguistic Survey of India (11 Vols, 19 Parts. Set) Low Price ,1990 ,Delhi ISBN: 8175363614

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