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 in the several English colonies and plantations abroad ... / by Thomas Dilworth ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dilworth, Thomas, -1780.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar.

English language.

Physical Description:

ix pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 154 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 18 cm (12mo)

Edition:

The seventy-eighth edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed and sold by H. K. Causton (successor to the late Mr. Henry Kent) ... no. 14, in Birchin-Lane ..., [between 1800 and 1809?]

Contents:

(from t.p.) I. Words, both common and proper, from to six syllables ...

II. A large and useful table of words that are the same in sound but different in signification, very necessary to prevent the writing one word for another of the same sound

III. A short but comprehensive grammar of the English tongue, delivered in the most familiar and instructive method of question and answer ...

IV An useful collection of sentences in prose and verse, divine, moral and historical, together with a select number of fables ...

V. Forms of prayer for children, on several occasions.

Notes:

Edition statement precedes author's name on t.p.

Edition numbering appears erratic, and publication date speculative: 57th ed. was published in 1797; H.K. Causton was known to occupy Birchin Lane after 1804. Cf. Maxted, I. London book trades.

OCLC:

185063194