Grammatical commentaries: : being an apparatus to a new national grammar: by way of animadversion upon the falsities, obscurities, redundancies, and defects of Lilly's system now in use. In which also many errors of the most eminent grammarians, ... are corrected, ... With an alphabetical index ... / by Richard Johnson ...
Richard Johnson (1656-1721)
Category
Books
Date
1706
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3228866
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32], 408, 27, [1] p. : table (fold.) ; 8vo. An additional leaf, 'The foregoing are the testimonials of friends; the following, the confession of an enemy; ...' is inserted before p. 1. Some manuscript annotations throughout. Rear endpaper annotations and page references. Ephemera: several scraps of paper with manuscript notes on loosely inserted throughout. Provenance: armorial bookplate on front pastedown (Franks 32206): 'William Windham Esquire'. Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "Oxford. Sepr. 16. 1768." and capital letter "N". Historic shelf label at head of spine "A9". Binding: eighteenth-century full calf, Cambridge-panel style; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt edge rolled; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Richard Johnson (1656-1721)