A New and Improved Spanish Grammar, Designed for Every Class of Learners, L.J.A. McHenry, 1837

L. J. A. McHenry’s A New and Improved Spanish Grammar was a standard 19th-century English-language manual for Spanish learners, designed both for the classroom and for self-instruction. McHenry, himself a native speaker, structured the work in two sections - covering the basics of the language first, then guiding learners through etymology and syntactical rules using extensive examples, dialogues, and annotations. The 1837 Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper edition includes an “Appendix” of additions and refinements, underscoring the grammar’s enduring popularity and pedagogical value during an era when modern language study was gaining momentum.

A New and Improved Spanish Grammar, Designed for Every Class of Learners, but Especially For Such as are Their Own Instructors. In Two Parts;

Part I, An Easy Introduction to the Elements of the Spanish Language;

Part II, The Rules of Etymology and Syntax Fully Exemplified, With Occasional Notes and Observations.

By L.J.A. McHenry, a Native of Spain (Luis Josef Antonio McHenry).

Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, London, 1837. New Edition, Corrected and Improved.

A good hardback in full leather binding with marbled tree-calf like swirls. Covers with some scuffing and bumping. Soundly bound with some offset edges to endpapers, and previous owner's signature to first free endpaper. Some light spotting to endpapers.

Text is clean and bright throughout, with occasional light scattered spotting. A very usable copy of an uncommon volume. 

Text in English/Spanish.

xii + 323pp + (1) + 12pp Publisher's advertisements.

Dimensions: approx 186mm high x 104mm wide x 22mm deep.

Weight: approximately 322g (unpacked).