The Rudiments of grammar for the English-Saxon tongue, first given in English: with an apology for the study of northern antiquities. Being very useful towards the understanding our ancient English poets, and other writers / by Elizabeth Elstob.
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1715
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(CON) Title page printed in red and black, engraved head-and tail-pieces and initials.||(PHY) A-O4, P1, Contents. A1r Title, verso blank; A2r-A4v Dedication; B1r-F2r Preface, F2v blank; F3r-P1v Text.||(REF) See estc.bl.uk; added to ESTC 15-07-2013;||(BIN) Accession no. 261: bound in recent mottled gilt-ruled calf, ornate gilt spine with red label.||(SUM) ëIn 1715 Elizabeth Elstob published her last book,The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue ñ the first grammar of Old English to be published in English. It is based, principally but not exclusively, on Hickesís authoritative grammar in the first volume of his Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archaeologicus
1703) [actually published 1705] and on the abridged version extracted from it by Edward Thwaites (1711), both of which are written in Latin. She prefaced The Rudiments with a passionate but well-documented apologia for Anglo-Saxon studies, directing her remarks against the indifference towards the subject as evidenced in the writings of Jonathan Swift, who sought to establish a language academy in England on the model of the AcadÈmie FranÁaise. Though small in size and only partly available in print Elizabeth Elstobís scholarly úuvre is on a par with the best work produced in Anglo-Saxon studies at the beginning of the eighteenth centuryí (ODNB). William Turner Alchin (1790-1865), antiquary, was latterly the librarian at Guildhall Library. His notes here tend to be critical, acerbic even.
1703) [actually published 1705] and on the abridged version extracted from it by Edward Thwaites (1711), both of which are written in Latin. She prefaced The Rudiments with a passionate but well-documented apologia for Anglo-Saxon studies, directing her remarks against the indifference towards the subject as evidenced in the writings of Jonathan Swift, who sought to establish a language academy in England on the model of the AcadÈmie FranÁaise. Though small in size and only partly available in print Elizabeth Elstobís scholarly úuvre is on a par with the best work produced in Anglo-Saxon studies at the beginning of the eighteenth centuryí (ODNB). William Turner Alchin (1790-1865), antiquary, was latterly the librarian at Guildhall Library. His notes here tend to be critical, acerbic even.
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