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. 11634
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
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Dilworth, Thomas, -- d. 1780 -- Portraits; English language -- Orthography and spelling; English language -- Grammar; Fables
Genres: Portraits
Notes: One of at least four impressions. In this impression, the title page appears on the verso of leaf [A]1, the recto of which contains a portrait of Thomas Dilworth. The first page of text has Roman, Italian, and English 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. 54 misnumbered 56; p. 61-84 misnumbered 59-82

Evans 11634

Hildeburn, C.R.  Pennsylvania, 2520

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 11634)