Grammatical commentaries : being an apparatus to a new national grammar: by way of animadversion upon the falsities, obscurities, redundancies, and defects of Lilly's sytem now in use. In which also many errors of the most eminent grammarians, both antient and modern, particularly, Sanctius, Scioppius, Vossius, Messieurs de Port Royal, &c. are corrected, and their defects supply'd. With an alphabetical index of words and matter. Necessary for schools, (as a comment upon the present grammar) and such as would attain to the true knowledge of the Latin tongue
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Type of record: Book
Title: Grammatical commentaries : being an apparatus to a new national grammar: by way of animadversion upon the falsities, obscurities, redundancies, and defects of Lilly's sytem now in use. In which also many errors of the most eminent grammarians, both antient and modern, particularly, Sanctius, Scioppius, Vossius, Messieurs de Port Royal, &c. are corrected, and their defects supply'd. With an alphabetical index of words and matter. Necessary for schools, (as a comment upon the present grammar) and such as would attain to the true knowledge of the Latin tongue
Classmark: Thompson Collection 87/JOH
Creator(s): Johnson, Richard (1721)
Related people: Lily, William, 1468?-1522
Publisher: Printed for the author: and sold by S. Keble in Fleetstreet; Hen. Bonwick, J. Taylor, J. Knapton, D. Midwinter in St. Paul's Church-yard; G. Sawbridge in Little Britain; and G. Strahan in Cornhil [sic]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1706
Language: English
Size and medium: [32], 408, 27, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/330164
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002617519705181
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Signatures: A⁴ a-c⁴ B-Z⁴ Aa-Zz⁴ Aaa-Fff⁴, ²A-²C⁴ ²D².
Two prospectuses were published, one in 1703 entitled: 'A treatise of the genders of Latin nouns:.. Being a specimen of Grammatical commentaries' and the other in [1705?] entitled 'Proposals for printing by way of subscription, the first part of a book now ready for the press, ..'.
Errata p. [28] at very end of text.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Indexed in: ESTC,
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