![M[ILTON], J[ohn] (1608-1674). Accedence commenc't Grammar ... for the use of such as, younger or elder, are desirous ... to attain the Latin tongue. London: S. Simmons, 1669.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07275_0089_000(010411).jpg?w=1)
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M[ILTON], J[ohn] (1608-1674). Accedence commenc't Grammar ... for the use of such as, younger or elder, are desirous ... to attain the Latin tongue. London: S. Simmons, 1669.
12° (137 x 75mm). (Title slightly soiled and with small nicks at margin, A4r slightly soiled, A5 with lower corner torn away touching on catch-word recto and one word of text verso, corner tip of C11 torn, without final blank C12.) 19th-century roan (rubbed, spine chipped and with library shelf-mark).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. While Wing gives precedence to the John Starkey issue, the present issue is identified in on-line STC as the first. As a pupil at St. Paul's, Milton had used William Lily's grammar, the authorized school text from 1540 onwards. Though his own simplified grammar, probably written in the early 1640s, borrowed some 330 of its 530 illustrative quotations from Lily, it was based on the belief that working knowledge of a language could be acquired in one year instead of the usual seven. 'His own book was brief, 75 duodecimo pages; it was in English, and, unlike other such books, it combined the explanations of inflection (accidence) and of syntax' (W.R. Parker, Milton, 1968, I, p. 295). ESTC locates only 9 copies of this first issue. Coleridge 1; Lowndes II, p. 1566; Shawcross 300; Wing M-2088A.
12° (137 x 75mm). (Title slightly soiled and with small nicks at margin, A4r slightly soiled, A5 with lower corner torn away touching on catch-word recto and one word of text verso, corner tip of C11 torn, without final blank C12.) 19th-century roan (rubbed, spine chipped and with library shelf-mark).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. While Wing gives precedence to the John Starkey issue, the present issue is identified in on-line STC as the first. As a pupil at St. Paul's, Milton had used William Lily's grammar, the authorized school text from 1540 onwards. Though his own simplified grammar, probably written in the early 1640s, borrowed some 330 of its 530 illustrative quotations from Lily, it was based on the belief that working knowledge of a language could be acquired in one year instead of the usual seven. 'His own book was brief, 75 duodecimo pages; it was in English, and, unlike other such books, it combined the explanations of inflection (accidence) and of syntax' (W.R. Parker, Milton, 1968, I, p. 295). ESTC locates only 9 copies of this first issue. Coleridge 1; Lowndes II, p. 1566; Shawcross 300; Wing M-2088A.
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