A philosophical and practical grammar of the English language

by Noah Webster

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First edition

New Haven: Brisban & Brannan, 1807. First edition, 12mo, pp. 250, original full calf, gilt-paneled spine; light dampstaining to the upper gutter; all else very good and sound. Of this small grammar Webster wrote in an 1805 letter to the American publisher Mathew Carey: I am compiling a Grammar upon what appear to be the true idioms & fundamental principles of the Language--which I hope to have ready for the press within a year... Webster's goal was

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