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FOX, George (1624-1691), Benjamin FURLY (1636-1714) and John STUBS (c.1618-1674). A Battle-Door for Teachers & Professors to learn Singular & Plural. London: for Robert Wilson, 1660. 8 parts in one volume, 2° (282 x 178mm). Errata slip pasted onto D5 of part 7, slip with 6 lines of text pasted onto verso of final leaf. (Title and A2 repaired in the margins, occasional marginal losses some with repairs, some browning, long tear in B1 of part 2). Contemporary reversed calf, sides panelled in blind (rebacked, endpapers renewed at an early date and inscribed all-over with biblical concordance). Provenance: copious marginalia in contemporary and later hands -- John Easton and other members of the Easton family (signature dated 1734, inscriptions, one of these dated 1773 presenting the book to:) -- Redwood Library.
FIRST EDITION of this grammar intended to justify Quaker usage by comparing singular and plural personal pronouns across a wide range of languages, dead and living, including English, Arabic, Persian, Russian, Welsh, Russian, and others. One of its authors, George Fox, was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends. The last section lists 'severall bad unsavoury words' in various school books; examples include: Dii perdant phronisterium una cum Magistro - 'Hang the school and the master too'; Canis micturus, cur pedem levat alterum? Ne permingat caligas - 'Why doth a dog being to piss, hold up one leg? Lest he should bepiss his stockins'; etc. The Redwood Library from which this copy derives is the second oldest subscription library in the United States. Wing F-1751.
FIRST EDITION of this grammar intended to justify Quaker usage by comparing singular and plural personal pronouns across a wide range of languages, dead and living, including English, Arabic, Persian, Russian, Welsh, Russian, and others. One of its authors, George Fox, was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends. The last section lists 'severall bad unsavoury words' in various school books; examples include: Dii perdant phronisterium una cum Magistro - 'Hang the school and the master too'; Canis micturus, cur pedem levat alterum? Ne permingat caligas - 'Why doth a dog being to piss, hold up one leg? Lest he should bepiss his stockins'; etc. The Redwood Library from which this copy derives is the second oldest subscription library in the United States. Wing F-1751.