CHAMBAUD (Lewis):

A Grammar of the French Tongue, With a Prefatory Discourse, containing an Essay On the Proper Method for Teaching and Learning that Language. The Eighth Edition, Revised and Corrected.

London: Printed for C. Bathurst...[et al], 1783. 8vo, xxvi, [x], 434 [435 adverts, 436 blank], contemporary sheepskin; some fingering of text, several leaves sprung, binding very worn, covers holding on for dear life. Chambaud first published this work in 1750, and there were at least another ten editions in the 18th century. ESTC N18065 locates three copies: L, PC; NNC-T. Alston XII, 291.

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Book number: 4505

Catalogue: Grammar

Keywords: grammar French prose

[ERPENIUS (Thomas)]:

Elementa Linguae Arabicae Ex Erpenii Rudimentis ut Plurimum Desumpta. Cujus Praxi Grammaticae novam Legendi Praxin addidit Leonardus Chappelow, Linguae Arabicae apude Cantabrigienses Professor.

Londini: Typis Caroli Ackers.... Prostant apud R. Knapton..., & C. Crownfiedl & G. AThurlbourn..., 1730. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 120 mms., pp. [ii], vi [vii - viii Index], 103 [104 Errata], contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards (rubbed), raised bands on spine, red morocco label. A very good copy, with additions to the errata in a contemporary hand and the authograph "Thos. Wickins/ Oxon" on the top margin of the recto of the front free end-paper. The Dutch Orientalist scholar Thomas van Erpe (1584 - 1624), aka Thomas Erpenius, having learned several languages, became professor of Arabic in Holland in 1612 and was the first European to publish an accurate book of Arabic grammar. His Rudimenta linguae Arabicae was published in 1620. Leonard Chappelow (16902 - 1768) was a sizar to St. John's College, Cambridge, and, having completed his M. A. in 1716 was ordained deacon at Ely. He was appointed professor of Arabic in1720 and devoted himself to editing and translating. In 1730 he issued a revised and augmented edition of the standard Arabic grammar which had first been published by the Leiden professor of Arabic Thomas Erpenius in 1613 and was to remain unsurpassed until the nineteenth century, but ONDB records that, "Although Chappelow was esteemed as an Arabist at Cambridge, he made no advance in the teaching of his subject, and the somewhat halting hand in which the Arabic of his surviving manuscripts and marginalia is written hardly suggests a deep familiarity with the language. He seems to have been interested mainly in its use for missionaries."

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Book number: 9848

Catalogue: Grammar

Keywords: grammar arabic prose

FENNING (Daniel):

The Universal Spelling Book. or a New and Easy Guide to the English Language: containing I. Tables of Words in one, two , three and four Syllables.... II. A very easy and rational Guide to English Grammar.... III. A Collection of nearly 5000 of the most useful Words.... IV. Alphabetical Copies, and Writing Pieces in Prose and Verse.... Lastly, Tables of Sovereigns of England since the Conquest.... Stereotype Edition.

Derby: Printed by and for Henry Mozley..., 1820. Large 12mo, pp. 156, including woodcut frontispiece, 6 woodcut illustrations in text, contemporary sheepskin (worn); some fingering of text, but in reasonable condition for a book that was clearly used, to judge from contemporary as well as 20th century inscriptions on the front paste-down end-paper and title-page, viz., on the front paste-down end-paper: "C. H. F. Rivington's Book/ Jany 13th 1820." The industrious Daniel Fenning ( (1714/15–1767) began writing school textbooks in his 30s and continued to do so for the rest of his life. He began working on this book, his most popular and successful, as early as 1739, but it was not published until 1756, but well over a hundred editions were later published.

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Book number: 5617

Catalogue: Grammar

Keywords: grammar spelling prose

GIRARD (Gabriel):

Synonymes Francois, Leurs differentes significations, & le choix qu'il en faut fair pour parler avec justeste. Et Traite de la Prosodie Francoise, Par M l'Abbe d'Olivet. Nouvelle Edition.

Amsterdam, Chez J. Wetstein, 1752. 12mo, pp. xliv, 304, 96, contemporary French mottled calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco label (chipped); wormhole at top of spine, slight wear to corners, but a very good copy.

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Book number: 1431

Catalogue: Grammar

Keywords: grammar prose French

GREENWOOD (James):

The London Vocabulary, English and Latin: Put into a New Method, proper to acquaint the Learner with Things as well as pure Latin Words. Adorned with Twenty-six Pictures. For the Use of Schools. The Twentieth Edition.

London: Printed for J. F. & C. Rivington, T. Longman, B. Law, R Baldwin, S. Bladon, and G. & T. Wilkie, 1791. 12mo, 147 x 84 mms., pp. viii, 123 [124 adverts], 26 vignette woodcuts, contemporary sheepskin; recent repair to small hole in B1, front joint very slightly cracked, but a good copy. Greenwood (?1683 - 1737) was probably published in 1711, though the earliest copy traced was printed in 1713. The work was reprinted well into the 19th century.

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Book number: 7125

Catalogue: Grammar

Keywords: grammar juvenile prose

MAIR (John):

An Introduction to Latin Syntax: Or An Examination of the Rules of Construction, as delivered in Mr. Ruddiman's Rudiments, without anticipating posterior Rules.... To which is subjoined, An Epitome of Ancient History, From the Creation to the Birth of Christ. Intended as a proper mean to initiate boys in the useful study of History, while at the same time it serves to improve them in the knowledge of the Latin Tongue. To which is added, A proper collection of Historical and Chronological Questions; with a Copious Index. The Eighth Edition.

Edinburgh: Printed for the Booksellers. 1779. 12mo (in 6s), 178 x 103 mms., pp. xi [xii blank], 299 [300 adverts], contemporary sheepskin; lacks all before title-page, first several leaves soiled, leaf of schoolboy notes (early 20th century) loosely inserted, binding worn, joints cracked. Mair (1702 - 1769) published this with the Ruddimans first in 1750, and it was frequently reprinted and used as a text-book well into the 19th century. He also wrote a book on book-keeping which proved to be even more popular and useful. ESTC N7787 locates copies at Harvard and Rutgers (2). A ninth edition of the same year has an identical imprint, with the date in numbers rather than Roman numerals.

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Book number: 7705

Catalogue: Grammar

Keywords: grammar language prose

MURRAY (Lindley):

Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar. With an Appendix, containing exercises In Orthography, In Parsing, In Syntax, And in Punctuation. Designed for the Younger Classes of learner. The Twentieth Edition, Corrected.

London: Printed for Darton and Harvey..., 1807. 12mo (in 6s), 138 x 85 mms., pp. 128 [129 - 132 adverts], contemporary sheepskin; several leaves sprung,rear hinge cracked, shaken in casing, corners a bit dog-eared, text giving every sign of frequent usage, binding rubbed, with contemporary ownership inscription, "Samuel Henson/ his Book/ 11mo 13th/ 1809" on the recto of the front free end-paper, "H.Venner" on the verso of the rear free end-paper, and "Daniel Henson/ His Book/ 1810" on the rear paste-down end-paper. Lindley Murray (1745 - 1826) published his English Grammar in 1795, with the Abridgment following shortly in 1797. Both proved to be far more successful than anyone anticipated. Both English Grammar and the Abridgment were published in numerous editions in the early 19th century, but very few seem to have survived, which is not too surprising for a school text-book.

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Book number: 7100

Catalogue: Grammar

Keywords: grammar spelling prose

PERRIN (Jean Baptiste):

Entertaining and Instructive Exercises, with the Rules of the French Syntax. By John Perrin. The Sixth Edition.

London. Printed for B. Law..., 1791. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [iv], 230 [231 - 236 adverts], contemporary sheepskin (worn and dried); text browned, crudely rebacked. Law published this work by Perrin first in 1768; eight editions were published in the 18th century, and the work continued to be reprinted well into the 19th century. Alston XII.449. ESTC N47800 locate copies at PPL, CaOHM, CtHT-W.

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Book number: 4460

Catalogue: Grammar

Keywords: grammar French prose French

PERRIN (John):

Le Guide du Traducteur. Or, The Entertaining and Instructive Exercises Rendered into French.

London: Printed for B. Law..., 1771. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 163 x 98 mms., pp. [iv], 210 [211 - 212 adverts], contemporary sheepskin (very worn); lacks end-papers, edge of title-page chipped, lower corners of first few leaves chewed, lower corners of last three leaves also chewed, with slight loss of text. Not the most wonderful copy, but uncommon. Jean-Baptiste Perrin (fl. 1767 - 1798) was born in France and later emigrated to Dublin. He began publishing books about learning French, and his earliest work seems to have been Essai sur l'origine et l'antiquité des langues, which was published anonymously in 1767. His Entertaining and Instructive Exercises, alluded to in the title, was first published in the early 1770s, and at least another ten editions appeared during the 18th century. ESTC N2408 locates only the copy at Princeton.

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Book number: 7399

Catalogue: Grammar

Keywords: grammar translation prose

VERGANI (M. A.):

Grammaire Italienne, simplifiee et redutie a xx lecons, Avec des Themes, des Dialogues, et un petit Recueil de trtis d'histoire en italine, a l'usage des commencans; Sixieme Edition, Corrigee et Augmentee.

Paris, Chez l'Auteur..., 1811. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [iv], 199 [200 adverts], contemporary tree sheepskin, spine ornately gilt, red morocco label; corners and edges worn, but a pretty copy.

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Book number: 1941

Catalogue: Grammar

Keywords: grammar prose French