{"product_id":"early-vepery-chennai-indian-printing-1789-a-grammar-for-learning-the-principles-of-the-malabar-language-tamil","title":"Early Vepery (Chennai) Indian Printing - 1789 - A Grammar for learning the principles of the Malabar Language - Tamil","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Grammar for learning the principles of the Malabar Language - Tamil - By the English Missionaries of Madras - Printed at Vepery near Madras - The Second Edition in the Year of our Lord 1789\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A glow-worm can not glitter in sunshine”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Poison will not leave a snake - ‘tho one feed it with milk”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“One man will keep a secret, but if two know it, the whole kingdom will know it”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese Tamil proverbs come from this very early Grammar of the “malabar”, or Tamil Language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollation: [3],TP in facsimile, 3-64, [38]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete text but the title page is in facsimile. With a total of 41 leaves of \u003cspan\u003emid 19th century notes made by a missionary to alphabetically record Tamil Biblical words.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e19th Century half calf. Old smell of smoke to book. \u003cspan\u003ePrinted in Madras (Chennai) in 1789 at the Vepery Mission Press, it is one of the earliest English books printed by missionaries in Chennai. The book was used by the English missionaries of Madras to teach themselves the local language of “low” Tamil.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOnly around 10 copies of this book are recorded, so it is a rare survivor from an early Indian Printing Press 🇮🇳\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56632256332154,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_8216.heic?v=1772252509","url":"https:\/\/debryrarebooks.com\/products\/early-vepery-chennai-indian-printing-1789-a-grammar-for-learning-the-principles-of-the-malabar-language-tamil","provider":"De Bry Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}