A new and easy guide to the French language: Teaching how to read, pronounce, and write that polite tongue correctly, in a much shorter time than by any other method yet made public. Containing every thing necessary for attaining a perfect knowledge of the French tongue, exemplisied in the declination of nouns, and the entire conjugation of verbs, regular and irregular, in a fuller manner than any that has yet appeared; with proper phrases, dialogues, and gallicisms; adapted to the meanest capacities, approved of by several eminent masters, and now published for the use of schools. By Richard Pierce, late master of the academy in Burlington-Gardens
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London : Printed for Hawes, Clarke, and Coliins, No. 32, in Pater-noster-Row, M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]
The fifth edition, with the addition of relative particles, and a vocabulary.; ..
- Publication year
- 1776
- ESTC No.
- T225770
- Grub Street ID
- 247541
- Description
- vi,[2],96,105-112,105-248p. ; 8°.
- Note
- Titlepage in red and black
With an additional titlepage in red and black: 'A new and easy guide to the French language: .. In two parts. I. A new French spelling book in tables from one to eight syllables, .. II. Every thing necessary for attaining a perfect knowledge of the French tongue, ..'
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The text and register are continuous despite the pagination
Running title: 'A short and easy guide to the French language'.
- Uncontrolled note
- This edition not in Alston. Does the additional titlepage belong? It calls for the spelling book (part 1); the L copy has part 2 only. It is possible that buyers could purchase either part separately or together, using the appropriate titlepage. Cf. t223073 for a later editio of 'A new French spelling-book, in tables from one to eight syllables' - Await further reports (if any) to verify