A battle-door for teachers & professors to learn singular & plural : you to many, and thou to one: singular one, thou; plural many, you. Wherein is shewed forth by grammar, or scripture examples, how several nations and people have made a distinction between singular and plural... Also, in this book is set forth examples of the singular and plural about thou, and you, in several languages, divided into distinct battle-doors, or formes, or examples; English, Latine, Italian, Greek, Hebrew ... In the latter part of this book are contained severall bad unsavoury words gathered forth of certain school-books
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Title: A battle-door for teachers & professors to learn singular & plural : you to many, and thou to one: singular one, thou; plural many, you. Wherein is shewed forth by grammar, or scripture examples, how several nations and people have made a distinction between singular and plural... Also, in this book is set forth examples of the singular and plural about thou, and you, in several languages, divided into distinct battle-doors, or formes, or examples; English, Latine, Italian, Greek, Hebrew ... In the latter part of this book are contained severall bad unsavoury words gathered forth of certain school-books
Classmark: Leeds Friends' Old Library 1098
Creator(s): Fox, George (1624-1691)
Additional creator(s): Stubbs, John (1618?-1674) (Other); Furly, Benjamin (1636-1714) (Other)
Publisher: Printed for Robert Wilson
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1660
Language: English
Size and medium: [iv], 94, that is, 100 pages, 12, 8, 12, 19 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 20, 19 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 28 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/239458
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991013296899705181
Collection group(s): Quaker Collection
Description
Many errors in paging. The different sections printed at different presses, are arranged according to the directions to the reader on last 3 pages of 7th section, which is followed by leaf of errata with mounted slip of "More errors". The last page ends with catch word "Some" (an error?) covered by mounted slip "The Pope set up you to one" [6 lines] signed: G.F.
Pp.4 and 5 in the 1st sequence are each wrongly numbered 3. Pp.17, 19 and 20 in the 5th sequence are wrongly numbered 20,61 and 17 respectively.
A slip bearing the concluding observation is pasted on the last page of the book.
Certain of the sections are signed or initialled by their individual author.
The four unnumbered pages before the final section contain a guide to the reader and a list of errata, with a further errata slip pasted on.
Gives the use of thou and you in 35 languages.
Indexed in: Wing F1751; Smith I, 663.
Additional description
Endpaper inscribed Martha ffishers Booke 1668 and June 2. 1744. This Book then receiv'd of Jos. Ogle Gent. in exchange for two gilt Battledoors By Joshua Crowther. Title-page inscribed Robert Empson Owner 11mo. 8th 1762 . Verso of endpaper inscribed Joshua Tatham 1800 . Wanting the errata slip More errors espied since on p.[4] of penultimate sequence, but with the slip The Pope set up you to one ... [etc]. on final p.28
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