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Instructions for right spelling, and plain directions for reading and writing true English : With several delightful things, very useful and necessary, both for young and old, to read and learn / By G. Fox.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox, George, 1624-1691.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Orthography and spelling.
- English language.
- English language--Grammar.
- Physical Description:
- 120 pages ; 15 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : Re-printed at Philadelphia, by B. Franklin, 1737.
- Notes:
- "Evans found a titleless copy of the Boston (Rogers and Fowle), 1743 edition at NN and for some reason entered it in his bibliography under entry 4138 as a 1737 Newport-James Franklin imprint. Alden, Rhode Island imprints, no. 40, corrected the error, and the editors of STE [i.e., Shipton & Mooney] have reassigned the Evans number to BF's Philadelphia printing."--Miller.
- Signatures: A-K6.
- Not in Evans or Bristol.
- Local Notes:
- Imprefect: p.15-22, 29-32, 37-60, 101-104 wanting ; t.p. and many other pages damaged, text wanting.
- Cited in:
- Shipton & Mooney 4138
- Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 25
- Miller, C.W. Franklin, 132
- OCLC:
- 187481444
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