Item #10154 Dissertations on the English Language; with Notes, Historical and Critical. To which is added, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling with Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject. Noah Webster.
Dissertations on the English Language; with Notes, Historical and Critical. To which is added, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling with Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject.
Dissertations on the English Language; with Notes, Historical and Critical. To which is added, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling with Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject.

Dissertations on the English Language; with Notes, Historical and Critical. To which is added, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling with Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject.

Boston: Isaiah Thomas & Company, 1789. xv, [2], 18-410p. Contemporary calf. Rebacked preserving the original spine. Noah Webster(1758-1843), lexicographer. See DAB XIX p594--597. "The beginning of his true career go back to 1782 when while teaching at Goshen, NY, he prepared an elementary spelling book published at Hartford in the following year". Sabin 102348. Contemporary signature of W. Pickering 1802 on the inside front blank. Nicely printed by Isaiah Thomas. Scattered foxing and some brown spots, otherwise a well preserved copy. Item #10154

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