A. Lane, A Key to the Art of Letters (1700)

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Date

1700

Author

A. Lane

Book title

A Key to the Art of Letters, or, English a Learned Language, Full of Art, Elegancy and Variety. Being an Essay to enable both Foreiners, and the English Youth of either Sex, to speak and write the English Tongue well and learnedly, according to the exactest Rules of Grammar. After which they may attain to Latin, French, or any other Forein Language in a short time, with very little trouble to themselves or their Teachers. With a Preface shewing the Necessity of a Vernacular Grammar

Publication place

London

Publisher

A. and J. Churchil and J. Wild

Text type

printed book

Genre

Grammars

Subject area

grammar

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword

Alston

I.36

Wing

L325

Facsimiles

Lane, A. A Key to the Art of Letters, 1700 A. Lane. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 171. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record

Criticisms

Dons, Ute. Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars. Topics in English Linguistics 47. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. 17-18. view record