1792 · Boston
by Webster, Noah, Jr.
Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrew, 1792. 120pp. Frontispiece portrait of Webster as front pastedown. Original calf backed paper covered birch boards. Edges worn. Free endpapers excised. Tanned. Else good. Webster's first publication was part one of A GRAMMATICAL INSTITUTE..., published in Hartford in 1783. The present work is a later edition of part II, the grammar. It was frequently reprinted after its first publication in 1784 at Hartford and was first published in a separate edition in 1789, as A PLAIN AND COMPREHENSIVE GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.... Of great interest as one of Webster's earliest contributions. EVANS 25001.
(Inventory #: WRCAM21541)