A PROPOSAL FOR CORRECTING, IMPROVING AND ASCERTAINING THE ENGLISH TONGUE; in a letter to the most honourable Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain. The second edition.

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8vo, pp. [3]-48; bound without the half title; some later pencil lines in margin, but not disfiguring; early MS price 'pr. 06' (presumably 6d) at top right hand corner of title page; in 19th century roan-backed marbled boards. Second edition. This is partly a reissue of the original edition: only the early gatherings, perhaps as far as sig. D (p. 32) are reset, and the rest is apparently a reprint from standing type see, for instance, the running-title on p. 44, where, in both editions, the L in 'A Letter to' is crammed up against the rule at the head of the page. The first edition was published soon after 17 May 1712, and this printing presumably followed very soon after that. Neither Teerink-Scouten nor ESTC seem to be aware that part of this edition is the same as the first. Teerink-Scouten 577; Alston III 220.

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A PROPOSAL FOR CORRECTING, IMPROVING AND ASCERTAINING THE ENGLISH TONGUE; in a letter to the most honourable Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain. The second edition.

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London: printed for Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate Fleetstreet

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1712

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