Epea pteroenta. Or, The diversions of Purley
Subtitle: Part I[-II]
By: By John Horne Tooke, A.M. late of St. John's College Cambridge
Edition: The first American edition. From the second London edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 11462
Publisher: Printed by Wm. Duane.
Published: 1806
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Language and languages; Indo-European languages; Etymology; English language
Other titles: Diversions of Purley
Notes: In the form of a dialog between H. and B. in v. 1, and between H. and F. in v. 2.

First two words of title transliterated from Greek.

Title of v. 2 varies in punctuation, with a colon replacing the period following "Epea pteroenta," and a comma inserted following "St. John's College." Vol. 2 has imprint date: 1807.

Plates engraved by William Kneass.

"Note. The publisher of this first American edition, apprises the friends of literature, that the author proposes to publish a third part of this invaluable work: which it has been intimated, may appear in London in the Spring of 1807 ..."--v. 2, p. [490]. This proposed third volume was never published.

"W. Duane, & Son, printers, Philadelphia."--v. 2, colophon (p. [490]).

Vol. 1: [8], 432 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [8], 379, 400-463, [27] p., [1] leaf of plates.

Errors in paging: v. 1, p. 212-216 misnumbered 112-116; v. 2, p. 122-123, 228 misnumbered 222-223, 238, and page numbers 380-399 omitted from sequence.

Indexes to words discussed, v. 2, p. [465-490].

Shaw & Shoemaker 11462

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