John Hart, An Orthography (1569)

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Date
1569
Author
John Hart Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
An Orthographie, conteyning the due order and reason, howe to write or paint thimage of mannes voice, most like to the life or nature
Publication place
London
Printer
Henry Denham? (ESTC)
Publisher
William Seres
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
spelling
Summary
A somewhat revised edition of his MS treatise (LEME 708; 1551), now British Library Royal MS 17.C.VII. "The author's name, John Hart, appears in the caption title of the epistle to the reader" (ESTC) Logical definitions.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Writing is a reasonable marking or grauing, or laying on of some colour differing from the superficies or grounde, to signifie ye writers mind to the beholder, which is instructed in that maner. (a2r)
Alston
VI. 519
STC
12890
Facsimiles
Hart, John. An Orthographie, 1569. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 209. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record
Hart, John. An Orthographie, 1569 . The English Experience, no. 40. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1968. view record
Modern editions
Hart, John. John Hart's Works on English Orthography and Pronunciation, 1551, 1569, 1580. Ed. Bror A. Danielsson. Stockholm Studies in English, 5 and 11. Stockholm: n.p., 1955-63. 165-228. view record
Criticisms
Eichler, Albert. "John Hart's Pronunciation of English (1569 and 1570) by Otto Jespersen." Anglia Beiblatt 19.6 (): 169-75. view record
Jesperson, O. "John Hart's Pronunciation of English (1569 and 1570)." Anglistische Forschungen. n.p.: n.p., 1907. view record
Kökeritz, Helge. "John Hart and Early Standard English." Philologica: The Malone Anniversary Studies. Eds. Thomas A. Kirby and Henry Bosley Woolf. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1949. 239-48. view record
Lucas, Peter J. "Sixteenth-century English Spelling Reform and the Printers in Continental Perspective: Sir Thomas Smith and John Hart." 7th series. The Library 1.1 (2000 March): 3-21. view record