The American grammar, or, A complete introduction to the English and Latin languages : formed from a careful perusal of the classic authors, and the writings of the best grammarians : for the use of schools both English and Latin / by Robert Ross ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Robert, 1726-1799.

Contributor:

Burr, Aaron, 1716-1757.

Finley, Samuel, 1715-1766.

Patten, Nathaniel, 1752?-1834, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Grammar.

Genre:

Grammars.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Baldwin, John (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Woody, Thomas, 1891-1960 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

199 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 16 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The seventh edition, carefully revised, corrected, and enlarged / with a vocabulary, containing the chief of the irregular nouns and verbs, and the principal part of the words used in the syntax, and the first forty colloquies of Cordery. And, a new preface, on the best method of studying grammar and languages.

Other Title:

American grammar

Complete introduction to the English and Latin languages

Fingerprint:

s-e- heh- eyin cois (3) 1782 (A)

Place of Publication:

Hartford : printed by Nathaniel Patten ..., 1782.

Notes:

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-U⁴ V⁴ W⁴ X-Z⁴.

Compiled by Robert Ross, with revisions by Aaron Burr and Samuel Finley, presidents of Princeton University. Cf. Dexter's Yale graduates.

First published in 1752 as A complete introduction to the Latin tongue.

Includes index.

With a printer's advertisement at foot of p. 199 and on p. [1] at end.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has the bookplate of Thomas Woody on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has an inscription at head of t.p. that reads "John Baldwin's 1792."

Cited in:

Evans, 17708

OCLC:

84221894