A grammar of the English tongue
Subtitle: with notes, giving the grounds and reason of grammar in general
Contributors: Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729; Gildon, Charles, 1665-1724
Edition: The second edition, with improvements.
Series: British and continental rhetoric and elocution -- Reel 1, no. 10
Publisher: Printed by R. Brugis, for John Brightland...
Published: 1712
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: English language; Grammar; English poetry; Rhetoric; Persuasion (Rhetoric); Logic; Early works to 1800
Other titles: The English grammar, with notes
Notes: Running title: The English grammar, with notes.

Remainder of subtitle: To which are now added, The arts of poetry, rhetoric, logic, &c . ; making a compleat system of an English education for the use of the schools of Great Britain and Ireland.

Edited by John Brightland. Cf. Brit. Library Cat.

"Attributed at different times to John Brightland, Sir Richard Steele and Charles Gildon. In all editions except the second (second issue) the dedication is signed 'The Authors', but in a reissue of the second edition it is signed 'John Brightland'." -- Bibliography of the English language from the invention of printing to the year 1800, vol. 1, p. 13 / R.C. Alston.

Dedication signed: John Brightland.

Remainder of imprint: Sold by Mr. Brown and Mr. Tooke at Temple-bar, Mr. Walthoe and Mr. Ward in the Temple, Mr. Churchill and Mr. Taylor in Pater-noster-row; Mr. Child, Mr. Knapton, and Mr. Midwinter in St. Paul's Church-yard; Mr. Boddington, Duck-Lane; Mr. Sprint in Little Britain; Mr. Phillips, Mr. Strahan, and Mr. Smith at the Royal-Exchange; Mr. Tracey on London-bridge; Mr. Varnum and Mr. Osborne in Lombard-Street; Mr. Freebairn, in Edinburgh; Mr. Dobson, in Dublin; and other booksellers.

Pages 180, 181, 260, 261 lacking in the original.

Some letters lost in gutter.
Table of contents: title: A grammar of the English tongue; title: The art of poetry; title: Rhetoric, or, The art of persuasion; title: Logic, or, The art of reasoning.