Dissertations on the English language: with notes, historical and critical, to which is added, by way of appendix, an essay on a reformed mode of spelling, with Dr. Franklin's arguments on that subject. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esquire. [Two lines in Latin from Tacitus]

People / Organizations

• Noah Webster (Author)

Imprint

Printed at Boston: for the author, by Isaiah Thomas and Company, MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]

Added name

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Publication year

1789

ESTC No.

W30890

Grub Street ID

341260

Description

xv,[2],18-410,[6]p. ; 8⁰

Note

Dedicated to Benjamin Franklin.

Printers' monogram device on title page.

Error in paging: p. 115 misnumbered 114.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: A-U? W? X-2B? (2B6, 2B7, 2B8 blank)