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