The true English grammar: being an attempt to form a grammar of the English language, not modelled upon those of the Latin, Greek and other foreign languages

by William B. Fowle

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First edition

Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1827. First edition, 18mo, pp. 180; drab boards backed in blue roan; boards scuffed, offsetting in text, some foxing, especially to endpapers, good. A second part titled The true English grammar, founded on authority as well as propriety was published in 1829 and is not present here. Something of a precursor to the modern descriptivist approach, but lest the title lead one to believe that this is a true monograph on descriptive

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