A new guide to the English tongue
Subtitle: in five parts. ... The whole, being recommended by several clergymen and eminent schoolmasters, as the most useful performance, for the instruction of youth, is designed for the use of schools in Great-Britain, Ireland, and America
By: By Thomas Dilworth, author of the Schoolmasters assistant; Young book-keeper's assistant, &c. &c
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 25399
Publisher: Printed & sold by Thomas & William Bradford, wholesale and retail booksellers and stationers, no. 8, South-Front Street.
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Portraits; English language; Orthography and spelling; Grammar; Fables
Notes: One of at least four impressions. In this impression, there is a preliminary gathering of two leaves, bearing a relief portrait of Dilworth and an illustrated alphabet. The verso of the title page contains roman and italic upper and lower case alphabets.

"Bradford's edition."--at head of portrait of Dilworth.

While undated imprints of Thomas and William Bradford (Thomas Bradford, 1745-1838, and William Bradford, 1777-1859) have been assigned publication dates in the 1790s, the earliest known dated imprint of this partnership was published in 1800.

Errors in paging: p. 86, 96 misnumbered 89, 98.

Evans 25399

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2520

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.