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[LITERATURE] - Wright’s Arabic Grammar: The Foundational English Treatise (1862) - WRIGHT, William - A grammar of the Arabic language, translated from the German of Caspari, and edited, with numerous additions and corrections … vol. I-II. London-Edinburgh, Williams and Norgate [back of title-page: printed by Friedrich Nies (Karl Berend Lorck), Leipzig ], 1862. 8vo (225x140 mm.), contemporary burgundy half Morocco with corners, boards covered in cloth in the same color, gold title on spine, stamp of a library on flyleaf, ‘withdrawn’. Second edition of what immediately became the standard English-language grammar of Arabic and one of the most important in any language, still frequently reprinted and remaining in general use. Although the title-page calls it a translation of Karl Paul Caspari's German edition, Wright's claims that he expanded and improved on his model are fully justified.