Author: MIEGE, Guy & BOYER, Abel.
Title: Grammaire angloise-françoise par M[essieu]rs. Miege et Boyer. Contenant une instruction claire & aisée pour acquérir en peu de tems, l'usage de l'anglois: et enrichie de règles fondamentales & succinctes, pour le parler purement, d'un vocanulaire assez ample, & des phrases les plus familières; enfin de dialogues utiles & récréatifs, & des proverbes les plus usités, &c. Revue & corrigée par M. Mather Flint.
Description: Paris: chez Briasson, David l'ainé, 1750. 12mo. [8], 420, [3]p. Two small tears in title-page (repaired, without loss of text) and in margin of leaf S3. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, sides, joints and extremities worn, marbled endpapers, red-edged leaves. Provenance: inscription on title-page "de Beaufort"; inscription on front free endpaper "a lusage de mademoiselle Colomboville mais qui apartien a Anne Stubbs; inscription on final blank page "Anne Stubbs 1773". ***** Guy Miège was born and educated at Lausanne and came to England in 1661, though he continued to travel abroad as under-secretary to the ambassador to Russia, Sweden and Denmark. His writings on language are of interest for the insights they give into the pronunciation of English in the late 17th century. Miège's own pronunciation was fundamentally Scottish-Northern probably modified by educated London usage. Abel Boyer was one of the most influential figures in the development of French grammar and lexigography in the same period. His Royal dictionary is an important source for the accentuation of English before the mid 18th century. Alston, vol.2, no.227.

Keywords: French, English, grammar, language, Mather Flint


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