1786 English Syntax (James Buchanan) Silas Engles Early American Provenance

A Regular English Syntax. Wherein is Exhibited The Whole Variety of English Construction, Properly Exemplified. To Which is Added The elegant Manner of arranging Words and Members of Sentences. The Whole Reduced to Practice, for the Use of private young Gentlemen and Ladies, as well as of our most eminent Schools. By James Buchanan. Philadelphia: Printed by Charles Cist, 1786, Provenance of Silas Engles (1781-1827), 197 p, full leather binding measures 6.75 x 4.25 , 18mo. In fair condition. Boards are normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Front board attached VIA CORDING ONLY! Rear hinge cracked. Loss of leather at fore-edge of rear board. Head and tail of spine scuffed. Old-hand ink marginalia & signatures found on both front and rear paste-downs: "This Book Bought of Silas Engles is the property of John A May" and "Abraham May his book, his hand and pen he will be good. but god knows when. Share not this book my honest friend for fear the gallows, might be your end. FINIS." Silas Engles has signed the title page, first page of Preface, Page 1, & rear paste-down. Front end-page & fly-leaf LACKING. Normal toning throughout text-block with scattered age-staining. Ink staining on fore-edges of pages 47-64. Pages 53-56 exhibit loss of bottom corners (no loss of text). Bottom edges of pages 125-128 exhibit loss with loss of text. Binding intact. Please se photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. James Buchanan (1716/17 1771) was an eighteenth-century schoolmaster, grammarian, and maker of pronouncing dictionaries who played an important part in the contemporary movement to fix the English language. Buchanan himself was not a spelling reformer, but extended the more general interest in spelling to a concern for regulating pronunciation. Buchanan promotes the idea of an English grammar school especially for the middle classes, on the grounds that his audience needed English before Latin. Provenance: Silas Engles (1781-1827) first made his appearance upon the public stage in 1803, as a Philadelphia journeyman printer. Newspapers of that city mention a Silas Engles, junr., who belonged to the local Typographical Society. By 1804, he had joined forced with a fellow Philadelphia printer, to establish Engles and Stiles, who were soliciting subscriptions for book publishing in that place. Journeyman printers: After completing their apprenticeships, journeyman printers were free to move employers. This facilitated the spread of printing to areas that were less print-centred. First Published in 1767, this is a later edition with early American provenance. RAREA1786FNOL - 07/23 FORN-TUB-0080-BB-2505-HKREV904. …