by Webster, Noah
Hartford, Connecticut: Barlow & Babcock. 1785. Hardcover. 12mo (6.25” x 3.75”), quarter calf, blue paper over boards. 139 pp. CONDITION: Good, spine and covers worn. spine rubbed at hinges, worming to outer left hinge, corners of cover bumped, pgs. 133-139 detached, lacking pgs. 135–138. First edition. Contains "a plain and comprehensive Grammar, grounded on the true Principles and Idioms of the Language," as well as "an Essay towards investigating the Rules of English Verse." REFERENCES: Evans 19363.
(Inventory #: 9526)