The only sure guide to the English tongue, or, New pronouncing spelling book
Subtitle: Upon the same plan as Perry's Royal standard English dictionary, now made use of in all the celebrated schools in Greatbritain and America. : To which is added, a large collection of moral tales and fables. : For the instruction of youth. : With an appendix [twelve lines of text]
By: By William Perry, lecturer on the English Language, in the Academy of Edinburgh, and author of several valuable schoolbooks
Edition: Seventeenth improved edition. / Carefully revised, corrected, and illustrated with several new cuts.
Publisher: Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts. By Isaiah Thomas, Jun. (Proprietor of the improvements, according to law.) Sold wholesale and retail by him at his bookstores in Boston and Worcester, and by Thomas & Whipple, in New-buryport, and by various other booksellers.
Published: 1814
Place of publication: Worcester, Mass.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: English language; Orthography and spelling; Pronunciation; Grammar; Animals; Geography
Notes: Parentheses substituted for square brackets in transcription of imprint on title page.

With an appendix: containing, an easy introduction to English grammar--of orthography--of punctuation--directions concerning the capitals; also, directions for the different sounds of the consonants before all the vowels, with every exception that is to be met with in our language, from such general rules: : also, a complete list of all the words in the English language, which, though written differently have a simliarity of sound.--Of those substantives and verbs, of the same orthography, but of a different accent.--Of those substantives and verbs, which vary in their sound, either by a different consonant, or by changing the hard sound of that consonant into the soft sound.--Of those adjectives and verbs, alike in orthography, but differently accented.--Of those substantives and adjectives changing the seat of the accent."

"Advertisement to the first edition," verso of title page, signed: Isaiah Thomas, Jun. Worcester, January 1804.

"The propietor ... now offers his second [edition] ... twenty thousand [copies of the first edition] have been sold during the last year."--Advertisement to the second edition, verso of title page, dated: January 1, 1805.

Preface, p. [v]-ix.

At foot of frontispiece: Thomas's Worcester edition.

Isaiah Thomas Jr.'s eleventh improved edition was issued in June, 1811; his eighteenth improved edition was issued in 1815.

"Geographical sketch of America."--Page 151-156.

"Valuable school books. Printed & sold, wholesale & retail by I. Thomas; Jr. in Boston and Worcester.--Sold also by Thomas & Whipple, Newburyport ..."--Advertisement, p. 180.

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