Re: Coulson's TY Skt.

mb wrote:

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Alas.

On the shelf at the Wall Street Borders (I stopped off on the way home
from the Green-Wood Cemetery's Memorial Day band concert, in Brooklyn),
for $24.95(!!), is the 2006 edition of Coulson's Teach Yourself
Sanskrit.

It is not by Coulson. It is a posthumous revision (though it's ©2006 by
Coulson) by two other authors, so it has probably been dumbed down.

If it's Gombrich and Benson, Neeraj Mathur posted recently that Coulson
died before it was first published in 1976. He wrote the preface in
1973.

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.lang/msg/cba8c14bfa511913?dmode=source

http://tinyurl.com/pj5ar

Looks like demand is high: 1976, 1992, 2004 and now 2006.

So in Britain, someone who's been dead for thirty years can own a
copyright?

Nonetheless, before investing a quarter-hundred dollars in the book, I
would like assurances that the 2006 copyright in the "new edition" is in
fact meaningless and this is identical to the work Neeraj praised the
other day.

I forgot to mention that they also had Hippocrene's 2004 reprint of Max
Müller's elementary Skt. textbook from 1870 (thus predating Whitney --
those two despised each other) at a more affordable price. The
introduction is mostly about how inferior all his predecessors (except
Colebrooke) were.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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