ENTICK'S NEW SPELLING DICTIONARY, Teaching to Write and Pronounce the English Tongue with ease and propriety ... : to which are added, an alphabetical account of the heathen deities, a ... table of remarkable events, discoveries and inventions, and a list of the post-towns in the United States ... Adapted to the Use of Schools in the United States ... To this Work is Prefixed, An Abridgment of English Grammar, Designed for the Younger Classes of Learners.
New York: From Sidney's Press, Printed for Evert Duyckinck, Book-seller and Sationer, 1810. Fourth Edition (American Imprints 20059; Cordell Collection E-53). [2 (blank)], 400 pp. Text double column. 32mo, signed in 8s. 5-1/8" x 4-1/4". Period full brown sheep binding. Maroon leather title label to spine, in 2nd compartment. Extremity wear & rubs. Boards splayed. Age-toning to paper. Numerous period ownership inscriptions. An About VG copy. Item #52095
"The first edition of the New Spelling Dictionary appeared in 1763; it sold, as did each of its successors, 20,000 copies. ... Entick spent most of his life as a writer, mainly for the bookseller Edward Dilly (1732 - 79). It was no doubt thanks to Dilly's extensive trade with America that the speller made its way across the Atlantic." [Green. Chasing the Sun, p. 286]
Also of note, further in Green [pp. 309, 313], it is said that Entick influenced Noah Webster with respect to his subsequent, and grand, lexicographical project.
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