Taming the tongue : in the heyday of English grammar (1711-1851) / Bryan A. Garner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garner, Bryan A., author.

Contributor:

Grolier Club, issuing body.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Garner, Bryan A--Library--Catalogs.

Garner, Bryan A.

English language--Grammar--History.

English language.

Grammarians.

English language--Grammar--History--18th century.

English language--Grammar--History--19th century.

Exhibition catalogs.

exhibition catalogs.

Libraries.

English language--Grammar.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 299 pages : color illustrations, plates ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Grolier Club, [2021]

Summary:

Bryan A. Garner's 'Taming the Tongue in the Heyday of English Grammar (1711-1851)' is the companion to the Grolier Club exhibition of the same title. Featuring 100 items, Garner's book makes the primers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries come alive in ways their concerned and idiosyncratic authors might not have envisioned. While Garner makes no mention of duels fought over the parts of speech, he shows that the grammarians of the period were a contentious and opinionated lot. The entries in 'Taming the Tongue' are packed with scrupulously recorded information on the content and publication details of the grammars, as well as tantalizing anecdotes from the authors' lives. Commentaries by Thomas Cable, David Crystal, Edward Finegan, Lane Greene, Christopher Ricks, John Simpson, and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and three appendices round out this lively book, which will appeal to scholars and aficionados alike. 0 0Exhibition: The Grolier Club, New York, USA (03.03.-15.05.2021).

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Years in this table refer to the date of the earliest item in each grouping.

1. A Short Introduction of Grammar

The Schoolmaster: Or, A Plain and Perfect Way of Teaching Children to Understand, Write, and Speak the Latin Tongue (1711) / William Lily

2. A Grammar of the English Tongue (1711) / Roger Ascham

3. The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue (1715) / John Brightland / Charles Gildon

4. An Essay Towards a Practical English Grammar (1722) / Elizabeth Elstob

5. An Introduction to an English Grammar (1726) / James Greenwood

6. "A Compendious English Grammar," in A New General English Dictionary (1737) / John Henley

A Guide to the English Tongue: In Two Parts / Thomas Dyche / William Pardon

7. A New Guide to the English Tongue in Five Parts (1740?) / Thomas Dyche

8. The Complete English Scholar in Three Parts (1753) / Thomas Dilworth

A Regular English Syntax / James Buchanan

The British Grammar: Or, An Essay in Four Parts Towards Speaking and Writing the English Language Grammatically / James Buchanan

9. The Royal Universal British Grammar and Vocabulary (1754) / James Buchanan

10. "A Grammar of the English Tongue," in A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) / Daniel Farro

11. An Introduction to the English Language and Learning (1757) / Samuel Johnson

12. A Practical New Grammar with Exercises of Bad English (1762) / Benjamin Martin

13. Hermes: Or, A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal Grammar (1765) / Ann Fisher

14. A Vocabulary or Pocket Dictionary, to Which Is Prefixed a Compendious Grammar of the English Language (1765) / James Harris

15. An Essay on Grammar, as It May Be Applied to the English Language, in Two Treatises (1765) / John Baskerville

A Grammar of the English Language, in Two Treatises / William Ward

16. A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1767) / William Ward

17. Letter from Robert Lowth to his publisher, Robert Dodsley, acknowledging receipt of a grammar the day before and requesting seven more copies as gifts (1762?) / Robert Lowth

18. The Rudiments of English Grammar (1768) / Robert Lowth

Letters to the Right Honourable / Joseph Priestley

Occasioned by the Reflections on the Revolution in France, &c. / Joseph Priestley

19. Youth's Faithful Monitor: Or, The Young Man's Best Companion, Containing a Compendious English Grammar (1770) / Edmund Burke

20. Remarks on the English Language (1770) / William Woolgar

21. The Circles of Gomer...with an English Grammar (1771) / Robert Baker

22. English Rudiments, or An Easy Introduction to English Grammar (1771) / Rowland Jones

23. "A Rhetorical Grammar of the English Language," in A New Dictionary of the English Language (1773) / Matthew Raine

24. A Practical English Grammar for the Use of Schools and Private Gentlemen and Ladies (1777) / William Kenrick

25. A Methodical English Grammar (1778) / Isaac Hodgson

26. Grammatical Institutes: Or, An Easy Introduction to Dr. Lowth's English Grammar (1779) / John Shaw

27. The American Grammar (1782) / John Ash

28. A Grammatical Institute of the English Language (1784) / Robert Ross

29. The Accidence: Or First Rudiments of English Grammar (1786) / Noah Webster

30. The Elements of English Grammar (1786) / Ellin Devis

31. Dissertations on the English Language (1789) / G. Neville Ussher

32. Letter from Noah Webster to Josiah Blakeley (1791) / Noah Webster

33. The Rudiments of Latin and English Grammar (1793) / Noah Webster

34. Articles of Agreement for the Sale of Land in Lower Manhattan (123 Water Street) by Lindley Murray to Noah Webster (1794) / Alexander Adam

35. English Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners (1796) / Alexander Adam

36. Marriage certificate of William Alexander and Ann Tuke of York, England (1796) / Lindley Murray

37. Selected letters of Lindley Murray to the Tuke family, compiled by Elizabeth Tuke Wheeler (1787-1825) / Lindley Murray

38. A Concise English Grammar: Rendered Easy to Every Capacity So That (Without Any Other Help) a Person May Acquire the Knowledge of the English Language (1795) / Lindley Murray

39. A Concise Grammar of the English Language (1795) / Benjamin Rhodes

40. A Grammar of the English Tongue (1796) / Alexander Miller

41. The Young Lady's Accidence: Or, A Short and Easy Introduction to English Grammar (1797) / Thomas Coar

42. Duncan Mackintosh "and his two Daughters," A Plain, Rational Essay on English Grammar (1797) / Caleb Bingham

43. "Winged Words": Or the Diversions of Purley (1798, 1805) / Caleb Bingham

44. A Letter...on the Errors of English Grammars (1798) / John Horne Tooke

45. A Practical Grammar of the English Language (1799) / Noah Webster

46. An English Pronouncing Grammar (1801) / John Burn

47. The Columbian Accidence: Or, A Brief Introduction to the English Language (1801) / Mark Ussher

48. The Columbian Grammar: Or, A Concise View of the English Language (1802) / David Gurney

49. A System of English Grammar (1804) / Peter Cochran

50. Institutes of English Grammar (1805) / Joseph Taylor

Rudiments of English Grammar / Ralph Harrison

51. A Short Introduction to the English Tongue (1805) / Ralph Harrison

52. A Practical Grammar of the English Tongue (1806) / James Haywood

53. A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English Language (1807) / James Gough / John Gough

54. English Grammar Made Easy to the Teacher and Pupil (1808) / Noah Webster

55. A Treatise on the Etymology and Syntax of the English Language (1809) / John Comly

56. English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners (1809) / Alexander Crombie

57. An Abstract of the First Principles of English Grammar (1810) / Jane Gardiner

58. The Principles of English Grammar (1810) / Joseph Hutchins

A Key to Lennie's Principles of English Grammar / William Lennie

59. Rudiments of English Grammar (1811) / William Lennie

60. Lindley Murray's letter to his brother John, urging that no response should be made to Noah Webster about the allegations of plagiarism (1815) / Noah Webster

61. A Grammar of the English Language (1813) / Noah Webster

An Abridgement of a Grammar of the English Language / John Grant

62. The Grammatical Remembrancer: A Short but Comprehensive English Grammar for the Use of Young Students in General (1817) / John Grant

63. An Essay on Grammar: The Principles of Which Are Exemplified and Appended in an English Grammar (1817) / Christopher Earnshaw

64. A Grammar of the English Language (1818) / James Patriot Wilson

65. A Grammar of the English Language (1819) / William Cobbett

66. Theory and Practice of English Grammar: Adapted to the New Modes of Instruction, in Which Every Rule and Observation in Syntax Is Elucidated by Various Examples (1819) / John Barrett

67. An American Grammar (1820) / John Matheson

An American System of English Grammar / James Brown

The American System of English Syntax / James Brown

An Appeal from the British System of English Grammar to Common Sense / James Brown

68. Grammar Simplified: Or, An Ocular Analysis of the English Language (1820) / James Brown

69. A Grammar of the English Language (1821) / Jeremiah Greenleaf

70. A Key to English Grammar (1821) / Joseph Sutcliffe

71. Conversations on English Grammar (1821) / John Lynde

72. The Grammatical Key: Which by Questions and Answers Represents the Method of Learning the Parts of Speech (1822) / Charles M.

Ingersoll

73. A Compendium of English Grammar (1823) / Josiah Wilbur

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures / Samuel Kirkham

74. The Institutes of English Grammar (1823) / Samuel Kirkham

The First Lines of English Grammar / Goold Brown

75. The Philosophy of Language Illustrated: An Entirely New System of Grammar, Wholly Divested of Scholastic Rubbish, of Traditionary Falsehood, and Absurdity, and Reduced to Principles of Fact and Common Sense, According to the Real Nature, Genius, and Idiom of the English Tongue (1826) / Goold Brown

76. Philosophic Grammar of the English Language (1827) / John Sherman

Elements of English Grammar / William S. Cardell

77. A Practical Grammar of the English Language (1829) / William S. Cardell

78. A Practical Grammar of the English Language (1829) / Rufus Nutting

79. The Little Grammarian (1830) / Roscoe G. Greene

Anonymous / Roscoe G. Greene

80. English Grammar by Lectures (1830) / Roscoe G. Greene

81. The Dialogue Grammar (1834) / Joseph Hervey Hull

82. Philosophical Grammar of the English Language (1835) / Benjamin Franklin Ells

83. The Inductive, Analytical, and Synthetic System of English Grammar (1836) / Edward Smith

84. Mistakes and Corrections [including "Errors in English Grammars"] (1837) / James M. Teeters

85. Lectures on Language, as Particularly Connected with English Grammar (1838) / Noah Webster

86. The Philosophy of Language, Containing Practical Rules for Acquiring Knowledge of English Grammar (1838) / William Stevens Balch

87. The Principles of English Grammar (1839) / William Cramp

88. Observations on Language, and on the Errors of Class-Books (1839) / Joab Brace Jr

89. The Comic English Grammar (1840) / Noah Webster

90. Mary's Grammar: Interspersed with Stories and Intended for the Use of Children (1840) / Percival Leigh

Contents note continued: 91. English Grammar: Founded upon the Natural Principles of Speech (1841) / Jane Haldimand Marcet

92. An Improved Grammar of the English Language (1842) / Joshua Jones

93. Pseudonym for Alfred Henry Forrester, The Pictorial Grammar (1842) / Noah Webster

94. A Practical Grammar of the English Language (1846) / Alfred Crowquill

95. General Principles of Grammar (1847) / Noble Butler

96. A Grammar of the English Language (1847) / Caroline Frances Cornwallis

97. A Rhyming Grammar of the English Language (1847) / Joseph Ripley Chandler

98. The Philosophy of Language: Comprehending Universal Grammar, or the Pure Science of Language (1849) / Peter Jamieson

99. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms (1850) / John Stoddart

100. The Grammar of English Grammars (1851) / William Chauncey Fowler

A Short Post-History on Grammars / Goold Brown

The Case of the Variable Parts of Speech / Goold Brown

The Various Configurations for Parts of Speech / Goold Brown

The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation (2016) / Goold Brown

Thomas Cable / Bryan A. Garner

David Crystal / Bryan A. Garner

Edward Finegan / Bryan A. Garner

Lane Greene / Bryan A. Garner

Christopher Ricks / Bryan A. Garner

John Simpson / Bryan A. Garner

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade / Bryan A. Garner

Lord Eldon's copy of Robert Lowth's A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1769) / Bryan A. Garner

Murray's Presentation Copy of His Grammar to a New York Theologian (1802) / Bryan A. Garner

Two Letters Signed by Lindley Murray (1785 & 1796) / Bryan A. Garner

Four Indignant Letters by Noah Webster (1787-1842) / Bryan A. Garner

Letter from William Cobbett of Botley to Captain Holmes of Grafton Street, London (1809) / Bryan A. Garner

The Goold Brown Cache of Letters (1823-1836) / Bryan A. Garner

Lindley Murray's Bequest of Books (1825) / Bryan A. Garner

The Little Grammarian (1828) / Bryan A. Garner

Steill's Pictorial Grammar for Children (1844) / William Fletcher

The Illustrated English Grammar: Or, Lindley Murray Simplified (ca. 1845) / Benjamin Steill

Anonymous / Benjamin Steill

The Common School Grammar (1847) / Benjamin Steill

The Principles of Grammar (1849) / William Bentley Fowle

The Play Grammar: Or, the Elements of Grammar Explained in Easy Games (ca. 1850) / Solomon Barrett Jr

The Young Grammarian (1847) / Julia Corner.

Notes:

"An exhibition catalog of 100 items from the Garner Collection -- which in full comprises more than 38,000 pieces -- dealing with English grammar. Authored by collection owner Bryan A. Garner, one of our foremost experts on legal writing, style, and usage, and general editor of Black's Law Dictionary."--Amazon.com

"This Grolier Club edition is limited to 950 copies, the first 50 of which are numbered and signed by the author"--Half title page

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Reference copy is number 688. Retains dust jacket.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781605830926

1605830925

OCLC:

1259567068