The complete art of writing letters. Adapted to all classes and conditions of life. Designed not only to finish the education of youth in general; but for every person that wishes to write letters well. Containing a Collection of Entertaining and Instructive Letters, as Examples for Improvement of Style; with An agreeable Variety of Original Letters on Education, Duty, Courtship, Marriage, Amusement, Business, Friendship, Compliment, Trade, and Modern Fashions; And a greater Number of them than are to be found in any other Book of this Sort. To which is prefixed, a compendious and useful grammar of the English language; with an Introduction, containing proper Directions how to address Persons of Rank and Eminence. The sixth edition; with the addition of some elegant poetical epistles, and forms of polite messages for cards. By Mr. Charles Johnson

People / Organizations

• Thomas Lowndes ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for T. Lowndes, in Fleet-Street; and T. Evans, in Pater-noster Row, MDCCLXXIX. [1779]

Added name

Lowndes, Thomas, 1719-1784, bookseller.; Evans, Thomas, 1739-1803, bookseller.

Publication year

1779

ESTC No.

T162103

Grub Street ID

200983

Description

xii, 252 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 12°.

Note

The texts of "A plain and compendious grammar of the English tongue", of the introduction and of "Letter I" are the same as those in Samuel Johnson\U+2019\s "A compleat introduction to the art of writing letters" London, 1758 (ESTC T82904). However, the rest of the letters, which comprise the bulk of the work, are different

Frontispiece.