A new guide to the English tongue: In five parts... The whole, being recommended by several clergymen and eminent schoolmasters, as the most useful performance for the instruction of youth, is designed for the use of schools in Great-Britain, Ireland, and America. / By Thomas Dilworth, author of The schoolmasters assistant; Young book-keeper's assistant, &c. &c.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Dilworth, Thomas, -1780.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 11634.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dilworth, Thomas, -1780--Portraits.

Dilworth, Thomas.

Dilworth, Thomas, -1780.

English language--Orthography and spelling.

English language.

English language--Grammar.

Fables.

Genre:

Grammars.

Spellers.

Prayers.

Alphabet books -- 1770.

Portraits.

Physical Description:

156 pages : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 18 cm (12mo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed & sold by Thomas & William Bradford, wholesale and retail booksellers and stationers, no. 8, South Front Street., [1800?]

Notes:

One of at least four impressions. In this impression, the title page appears on the verso of leaf [A]1, the recto of which contains a portrait of Thomas Dilworth. The first page of text has Roman, Italian, and English alphabets.

"Bradford's edition."--at head of portrait of Dilworth.

While undated imprints of Thomas and William Bradford (Thomas Bradford, 1745-1838, and William Bradford, 1777-1859) have been assigned publication dates in the 1790s, the earliest known dated imprint of this partnership was published in 1800.

Errors in paging: p. 54 misnumbered 56; p. 61-84 misnumbered 59-82.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 11634).

Cited in:

Evans 11634

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2520

OCLC:

55813144