Webster, Noah:ABAA
Webster, Noah:ABAA
LETTERS TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN COMMENCING THE EDUCATION: TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
1823réf. 56705New Haven: S. Converse Printer Sold by Howe & Spalding 1823. The Emily Skeel-William Safire Copy of Webster's LETTERS TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN The Skeel-Safire copy of the first edition of this unusual Webster publication. In a series of nine letters to an unknown and likely universal correspondent Webster discusses the usual array of issues surrounding grammar and parts of speech as well as virtue and other moral ideals and also comments on the English language dictionaries of his day such as those compiled by Johnson Sheridan and Kenrick. Following the letters is a "Summary History of the discovery and settlement of America from the time of English settlement through the American Revolution" "adapted to the use of families and schools.a convenient Manuel sic for travellers and seamen." In subsequent years Webster's American history would be expanded and reissued but this is its first appearance. A esoteric Webster item with notable etymology-related provenance having been owned by both Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel Webster's granddaughter and bibliographer and William Safire the preeminent popular American language and grammar expert of the late 20th century. Skeel compiled A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF NOAH WEBSTER and published the work in 1958; books from her library are scarce. Safire was an author journalist and speechwriter who wrote the long-running column "On Language" for the New York Times. An interesting work by the foundational American language expert owned by his granddaughter who was also one of his bibliographers and then the most notable public expert on language in late 20th-century America. 335pp. Contemporary calf expertly rebacked in matching style spine ruled in gilt gilt morocco label. Leather bookplate of noted grammarian William Safire and the Green Knoll bookplate of Roswell and Emily E.F. Skeel on front pastedown. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on titlepage. Text tanned minor foxing throughout. Good. SKEEL 533. SABIN 102365. hardcover books
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