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A Regular English Syntax. Wherein is Exhibited The Whole Variety of English Construction, Properly Exemplified. To Which is Added The elegant Manner of arranging Words and Members of Sentences. The Whole Reduced to Practice, for the Use of private young Gentlemen and Ladies, as well as of our most eminent Schools. By James Buchanan, Printed by Charles Cist, Philadelphia, 1786, 197 pp, full original leather, 6.75 x 4.25 , 18mo. In fair condition. Light wear to extremities with typical rubbing to corners and extremities. Joints tender with slight cracking. Somewhat fragile. Light scuffing to surface of leather overall. Leather remains soft and rich in color. Two repair patches on rear board along with areas of worming. Small patch of loss at rear board proper left edge. Worming to rear pastedown and bottom edge of title. Lacking fly (?). Old hand ownership of John A. May This Book Bought of Silas Engles is the property of John A. May on pastedown. Silas has signed the title, the preface, the first leaf of chapter I, and five times on the rear pastedown. Abraham May his book, his hand and pen he will be good, but god knows when. Steal not this book my honest friend for fear the gallows, might be your end Finis on rear fly along with a folk drawing of a quail! Typical age toning throughout with instances of light staining and foxing. Loss of text at bottom corners 53-56 and 125-128 pp. Ink staining in the margins at times. Some worming, not affecting text at end papers. Binding remains intact. Please see photos. A scarce book in any edition, this is not the first. James Buchanan was an eighteenth-century schoolmaster, grammarian and maker of pronouncing dictionaries who played an important part in the contemporary movement to fix the English language. He was a notable advocate of the English education, a grammar-school course based on English instead of Latin as the essential prep subject. Provenance of Silas Engles (1781-1827) first made his appearance upon the public stage in 1803, as a Philadelphia journeyman printer. Newspapers of that city mention a Silas Engles, junr., who belonged to the local Typographical Society. By 1804, he had joined forced with a fellow Philadelphia printer, to establish Engles and Stiles, who were soliciting subscriptions for book publishing in that place. A perfect book for a journeyman printer in the New Republic!. Seller Inventory # RAREA1786FNOL
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