A Critical Review Of The Orthography Of Dr Websters Series Of Books For Systematick Instruction In

by Lyman Cobb

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First edition

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

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