An introduction to the making of Latin : comprising, after an easy, compendious method, the substance of the Latin syntax : with proper English examples, most of them translations from the classic authors, in one column, and the Latin words in antoher : to which is subjoin'd, in the same method, a succinct account of the affairs of ancient Greece and Rome, intended at once to bring boys acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Latin tongue with rules for the gender of nouns
The sixteenth edition, revised and carefully corrected.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Hodges on London-Bridge,
Date of Publication
MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description
xii, 297, [3] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Notes
"A dissertation upon the usefulness of translations of classic authors, both literal and free, for the easy and expeditious attainment of the Latin tongue" (p. [277]-297) has special title page.
Signatures: A-N¹².
Bookseller's advertisement on last three pages.
Apparently from Jasper Yeates's personal libarary.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of John Yeates.
Collects two hundred letters from readers of Mark Twain to the author himself, offering a glimpse into the lives and sensibilites of nineteenth-century children, preachers, con artists, inmates, and other fans of the author's work.
The English reader : or, Pieces in prose and poetry, from the best writers; designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect; improve their language and sentiments, and to inculcate the most important principles of piety and virtue
The English reader, or, Pieces in prose and poetry : selected from the best writers : designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect, to improve their language and sentiments, and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue : with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading
The English reader: or, Pieces in prose and poetry, selected from the best writers. : Designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect: to improve their language and sentiments: and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue. : With a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading
By Lindley Murray, author of "English grammar, adapted to the different classes of learners," &c.
Place of Publication
Title page missing
Physical Description
xxi, [1], 23-255, [4] p. ; 18 cm.
Notes
"Contents."--p. [256-259].
p.256-258 missing.
On flyleaf: "Henry Stauffer's English Reader, bought for him by his grandfather, Henry Musser, February 16th [year missing] Hempfield township Lancaster county Pennsylvania."
On inside cover: "Anna Stauffer English Reader Anna Stauffer."
