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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, andc. andc.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dilworth, Thomas, -1780, author.
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:
1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations, 1 portrait
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Thomas and William Bradford, wholesale and retail booksellers and stationers, numbers 8, South Front Street., [circa 1800]
System Details:
text file
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: pages 54 misnumbered 56; pages 61-84 misnumbered 59-82.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 11634).
Cited in:
Evans 11634
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2520
Access Restriction:
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