phia: Printed by
R. Aitken Bookseller, opposite the London Coffee-House, Front-Street.
m.dcc.lxxv
. Price
2 s. and 6 d. [1775.]
PE1109 .L85 1775
12mo. 72 leaves.
Evans 14169.
Hildeburn 3235.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
3.3.
Jefferson made the following comment on this work in his essay on Anglo-Saxon, in section IV, Grammar:
it will be said e. g. that a priest is of one gender, and a priestess of another, a poet of one, a poetess of another &c and
that therefore the words designating them must be of different genders. I say; not at all, because altho’ the thing designated
may have sex, the word designating it like other inanimate things has no sex, no gender. in Latin we well know that the thing
may be of one gender and the word designating it of another. see Martial 7. Epig 17 the ascription of gender to it is artificial
and arbitrary, and, in English & A-S. absolutely useless. Lowthe therefore among the most correct of our English grammarians,
has justly said that in the Nouns of the English language; there is no other distinction of gender but that of Nature, it’s
adjectives admitting no change but of the degrees of comparison.
Robert Lowth, 1710-1787, Bishop of London, first published his
Short Introduction to English Grammar in 1762. This edition of 1775 is the
first American edition.
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110
The British grammar.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 167, no. 34, as above.
[BUCHANAN,
James.]
The British Grammar: or, An Essay in Four Parts, towards Speaking and Writing the
English Language Grammatically, and Inditing Elegantly. For the Use of the Schools of Great Britain and Ireland, and of Private Young
Gentlemen and Ladies. The
Second Edition . . .
London: Printed for
A. Millar, and Sold by
T. Cadell in the Strand.
m.dcc.lxviii
. [1768.]
PE1109 .B89 1768
12mo. 150 leaves, the verso of the last with a list of books printed for
A. Millar.
Not in Halkett and Laing, Cushing or Stonehill.
Not in Lowndes.
This edition not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
Not in Watt.
James Buchanan, fl. 1760-1780, Scots grammarian, was the author of a number of books on syntax. In the
London Catalogue of Books, 1700-1779, this work is listed as Buchanan’s British Grammar (price 3.0.). The first edition was printed in 1762.
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111
Mattaire’s
English grammar.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 166, no. 91, Maittaire’s English Grammar, 8vo.
MAITTAIRE,
Michael.
The
English Grammar; or, An Essay in the Art of Grammar applied to and exemplified in the
English Tongue. By Michael Maittaire.
London: printed by
W. B. for
H. Clements,
1712.
First Edition. 8vo. 144 leaves; a copy was not available for examination.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
Watt II, 636.
Michael Maittaire, 1668-1747, classical scholar and typographer, was born in France of Protestant parents who fled to England at the time of
the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He was educated at Westminster School under Dr. Busby, q.v. and for a time was its
second master. He was the author of a number of learned works, of which the most famous is the
Annales Typographici
, and of a number of school books.
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