Shelfmark
Ic4.4.35
Author
Title
An introduction to the making of Latin, comprising, after an easy, compendious method, the substance of the Latin syntax. With Proper English Examples, most of them Translations from the Classick Authors, in one Column, and the Latin Words in another. To which is subjoin'd, in the same Method, a succinct account of the Affairs of ancient Greece and Rome; intended at once to bring Boys acquainted with History and the Idiom of the Latin Tongue; With Rules for the Gender of Nouns. By John Clarke, late Master of the Publick Grammar-School in Hull.
Edition
The thirteenth edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : printed for C. Hitch, in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Hodges, on London Bridge, M.DCC.XLVIII. [1742]
Physical description
xii, 297, [3] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Note
With final three pages of advertisements.
Note
Includes: 'A dissertation upon the usefulness of translations of classic authors'.
Note
Advertisements on title page verso.
Note
Signatures: A-N¹².
Citation/references note
ESTC, T117998
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College Library.
Provenance
Two ms. inscriptions on front free endpaper verso: "Richard Collard".
Provenance
Ms. inscription on front free endpaper: "Richard Collard Ejus Liber Anno Domini 1750 Hic nomen pono quia librum perdere nolo si quis me querit hic tibi nomen erit".
Provenance
Ms. inscription on front free endpaper: "Jno Collard Ejus Liber 1758".
Provenance
Numbers inscribed in ms. in red ?pencil on front free endpaper.
Provenance
Ms. inscription on rear endpaper: "Petrus Parker Non Ejus Liber".
Binding
18th century brown sheep binding; blind tooled perimeter frame; four raised bands; two cord sewing supports; red sprinkled edges.
Subject
Latin language Grammar Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Hitch, Charles, ? - -1764 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Hodges, James, ? - -1774 bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B38651