A new English grammar, : prescribing as certain Rules as the Language will bear, for Forreners to learn English: Ther is also another Grammar of the Spanish or Castilian Toung, with som special remarks upon the Portugues Dialect, &c. Whereunto is annexed A Discours or Dialog containing a Perambulation of Spain and Portugall, which may serve for a direction how to travell through both Countreys, &c. For the service of Her Majesty, whom God preserve
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Type of record: Book
Title: A new English grammar, : prescribing as certain Rules as the Language will bear, for Forreners to learn English: Ther is also another Grammar of the Spanish or Castilian Toung, with som special remarks upon the Portugues Dialect, &c. Whereunto is annexed A Discours or Dialog containing a Perambulation of Spain and Portugall, which may serve for a direction how to travell through both Countreys, &c. For the service of Her Majesty, whom God preserve
Other titles: La perambulaciòn de España y de Portugal; en un discurso entre Carlos y Felipe; A short dictionary or, catalog of such Portuges words that have no affinity with the Spanish
Classmark: BC Lg/HOW
Creator(s): Howell, James (1594?-1666)
Additional creator(s): Howel, Diego (Other); Grant, Sir Archibald (Other)
Related people: Howel, Diego; Grant, Archibald
Publisher: Printed for T.Williams, H.Brome, and H.Marsh
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1662
Language: Multiple languages
Size and medium: [14],175,[1],95p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/285202
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002076579705181
Description
First edition.
With an additional title-page in Spanish.
The leaf preceding the title-page carries a dedication: 'A la ecelsa, y serenissima magestad, de Doña Catarina de Bragança Infanta de Portugal, y Reyna de la Gran Bretaña, &c. Que Dios guarde con acrecentimientos de toda Felicidad Imaginàble, segun los mas humildes, los mas Entrañables Desseos, y Devociones De Don Diego Howel. En Londres 1662.'.
The second part, 'La perambulaciòn de España y de Portugal; en un discurso entre Carlos y Felipe' has a separate title-page, with the title in Spanish and English, and is printed with Spanish and English parallel texts on facing pages.
Pages [85]-[93] of the second part are unpaginated.
Signatures: [A]-M⁸ Aa-Ff⁸.
Includes 'La perambulaciòn de España y de Portugal; en un discurso entre Carlos y Felipe', and 'A short dictionary or, catalog of such Portuges words that have no affinity with the Spanish'[with their English equivalents].
Indexed in: Wing H3095; Alston (Bibl.Eng.Lang., v.2) 597; Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 116381.
Additional description
Wanting [A]1 (leaf before English title the Spanish title is [A]3). On the verso of the leaf (unoriginal) which precedes the English title is pasted part of the engraved title to Howell's Epistolæ Hoelianæ , 1645 (Johnson, Engraved and etched English title-pages , Marshall, no.94), consisting of the portrait of Howell and the imprint. With the bookplate and label of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, bart. (formerly Stirling), of Keir, whose initials and monogram are stamped on the covers. On the paste-down at the end is the armorial bookplate of Richard Ford, 1796-1858, critic and author of books on Spain. The plate bears his signature at the foot. On a flyleaf at the front are notes on the work in an unidentified hand (Richard Ford's?)
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