Title
A grammar of the English tongue : with the arts of logick, rhetorick, poetry, &c : also useful notes giving the grounds and reason of grammar in general : the whole making a compleat system of an English education ...
Edition
The third edition.
Published
London : Printed for John Brightland, and sold by Mr. King ..., Mr. Barnes ..., Mr. Harding ..., Mr. Wyatt and Mr. Buttler ..., Mr. Tonson ..., Mr. Brown ..., Mr. Mers ..., and Mr. Kent ..., Mr. Walthoe in the Temple, and at his shop in Stafford ... [and 17 others in London], 1714.
Physical Description
[16], 131, [1], 131-264 p. : 1 ill. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Notes
Variously attributed to John Brightland, Sir Richard Steele, and Charles Gildon. The dedication is signed: John Brightland.
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iii, lot 119 (with Harvey, Howell, Masaniello, Tosi, and William III's Diary and Letters), to -- Oldmixon, Esq., 10/-.
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 2000
English short title catalogue, T143961
Alston, R. Bibliography of the English language from the invention of printing to the year 1800 , I, 45
Genre/Form
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.