SWEET, Henry. — The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners. Language and Language Learning. Library Edition.

London, Oxford University Press, 1972. Reprint. Hardback. Usual orange coloured cloth, lettered white. xv[iii]+276pp. A very nice hardback copy. Clean and tight. In very good condition. Important work first published in 1899 by the English philologist, phonetician and grammarian, Henry Sweet. In 1877, he published A Handbook of Phonetics, which attracted international attention among scholars and teachers of English in Europe. He followed up with the Elementarbuch des gesprochenen Englisch (1885), which was subsequently adapted as A Primer of Spoken English (1890). His emphasis on spoken language and phonetics made him a pioneer in language teaching, a subject which he covered in detail in The Practical Study of Languages (1899). The Sounds of English (1908) was his last book on English pronunciation.