Found, a genuine British schoolroom memento - a 'treated' copy of Benjamin Hall Kennedy's Shorter Latin Primer recently described by Mary Beard in The Independent as 'the Rolls Royce of textbooks'. Certainly it is one of the longest lived -120 years after its publication it is still the best-selling book in the Classics section of most college bookshops. As Mary B says 'It took only the addition of a few extra letters and lines to turn The Shorter Latin Primer into The Shortbread Eating Primer.'
This copy (1938) comes with serious schoolroom wear and ink blotches worthy of Molesworth...
There must be plenty of copies still around of Whitmarsh's "MORE RABID FRENCH" (even the laziest emenders of the 1970s could manage a single pen-stroke).
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