Eine Nützliche Anweisung oder Beyhülffe vor Deutsche um Englisch zu lernen : wie es vor Neu-Ankommende und andere im Land gebohrne Land- und Handwerksleute, welche in der englischen Sprache erfahrene und geübte Schulmeister und Praeceptores ermangelen, vor das bequemste erachtet worden; mit ihrer gewöhnlichen Arbeit und Werkzeug erläutert : nebst einer Grammatic, vor diejenigen, welche in andern Sprachen und deren Fundamenten erfahren sind.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sower, Christopher, 1721-1784, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--German speakers.

English language.

English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--German.

English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.

Germany.

English language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Genre:

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Textbooks.

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861-1944 (bookplate) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Rittenhouse, Abraham (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Rittenhouse, Enoch (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 262 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (8vo)

Edition:

Dritte Auflage.

Fingerprint:

ssnd anr. i.r. Waun (3) 1772 (A)

Place of Publication:

Germanton [Pa.] : gedruckt und zu bekommen bey Christoph Saur, 1772.

Notes:

Signatures: )(² A-Q⁸ R⁴ S² (final leaf is blank).

"Probably compiled by Christopher Sower ... the younger."--Evans 6777.

"Grammatic" and "Praeceptores" printed in Roman type.

Head- and tail-pieces.

Errors in pagination: p. 124-125 repeated; p. 241, 247, and 255 misnumbered 263, 147, and 155, respectively.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: p. 95-96 wanting.

Culture Class Collection copy left and right boards and front free endpaper are detached.

Culture Class Collection copy has two inscriptions in brown ink on t.p. that read "Enoch Rit" and "Enoch Ritten"; t.p. somewhat mutilated, partially obscurring inscriptions.

Culture Class Collection copy has an inscription in brown ink on back pastedown that reads "Abraham Rittenhouse his book and pen god bless King Georg [...] men Abraham Rittenhouse."

Culture Class Collection copy was presented to the Library of the University of Pennsylvania by Charles W. Burr, M.D.

Cited in:

Evans, 12552

First cent. of German lang. printing in the U.S., 411

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2796

OCLC:

84313741