A critical review of the orthography of Dr. Webster's series of books for systematick instruction in the English language; including his former spelling-book, and the elementary spelling-book, compiled by Aaron Ely; and published under the name of Noah Webster

New York: Collins & Hannay, 1831. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 56; removed and trimmed. Cobb's famous attack on Webster's quarto dictionary of 1828, and the first of the many anti-Webster pamphlets which proliferated into the middle of the century, in which he, Cobb, takes Webster to task for his system of revised orthography, a pamphlet "which many held was inspired by malice and a desire to increase his own sales [of his own spelling books]. The Critical Review was answered by Webster's 8-p. pamphlet, To the Friends of American Literature. Each side was able to point out numerous errors in the other, although Cobb's agents defied "anyone to show (truncated) a variation from the true dictionary of Walker," an abridgement of which, by Cobb, was published at Ithaca in 1829" (DAB). (Inventory #: 15860)