[FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. WEBSTER, Noah. Dissertations on the English Language. FIRST EDITION. --Dictionary for Primary Schools. NY, 1833.
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[FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790)]. WEBSTER, Noah (1758-1843). Dissertations on the English Language... to which is added... an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, with Dr. Franklin’s Arguments on that Subject. Boston: Printed for the author by Isaiah Thomas and Company, 1789.
8vo (204 x 129 mm). (Sem staining and spotting, small strip of blank upper margin of title-page excised.) Contemporary roan, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (joints starting, some overall rubbing and light wear).
FIRST EDITION, dedicated to Benjamin Franklin and including an appendix by him. Webster presents the notion of an American, rather than English, language, proposing a reform to spelling, which grew out of a correspondence with Franklin. Evans 22259; Sabin 102348.
[With:] WEBSTER. Dictionary for Primary Schools. New York: N. & J. White, 1833. 12mo. Text printed in 3 columns throughout. Contemporary roan (amateurish stab-sewing repairs to joints, lacking portions of roan). Provenance: Mary E. Partridge (old stamps to title-page).
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