WENDEBORN, Gebhard Friedrich August. An Introduction to German Grammar … London, Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson … 1790. 
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Small 8vo (178 × 112 mm), pp. [8], 208; some light offsetting from the turn-ins, the occasional mark elsewhere; contemporary sheep, rubbed, morocco spine label lettered gilt; with the stamp of the Earls of Ancram to the title.
First edition, a reworked and updated version of the author’s earlier Elements of German Grammar (1774). The additions include a practical section of dialogues at the end (‘On the arrival of a foreigner in London’, etc.), plus some further reading, namely extracts from Lessing, Der Freigeist, Gellert, Moralische Vorlesungen, letters in German which Wendeborn has translated himself from The Spectator (‘A beginner, who will translate them, as exercises, into English again, may afterwards correct his translation by means of the original, and thus improve himself in the language’, p. 197), and verse, by Gellert and Hagedorn. Alston XIII, 14; not in McLelland.
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