London: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1926. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt with boards ruled in blind. Very Good. Cloth streaked in raking light, lightly rubbed at extremities. Light staining to textblock edge. Previous owner gift inscription to front free endpaper and browning to front free endpaper and title page. In a Very Good dust jacket with toning and soiling, spine ends worn, small losses at tips, rubbing at joints, tear and areas of abrasion to rear flap. A style guide to British English usage, pronunciation and writing, colloquially referred to as Fowler's Usage, which became the standard for other style guides to writing in English. Immensely influential, this first edition remains in print to this day.