The Paths of Learning Strewed with Flowers : Or English Grammar Illustrated.

Accession number: 
PML 84446
Published: 
[New Haven : Asaph Willard], 1826.
Description: 
1 broadsheet (1 t.p., 13 plates) : ill. (handcol. etchings) ; 34.3 x 53 cm
Credit: 
Purchase.
Notes: 

"Printed by Aph. Willard"--note in pencil on board.
Imprint from Shoemaker, cited below.
The unfolded, uncut sheet of etchings was meant to make up a copy of a booklet. Willard pirated the images of the title page and thirteen plates, as well as the explanatory texts below the images, from John Harris's 1820 London edition of the same title (see Moon and Gumuchian, cited below) (PML 84994). Both length and format of the book were reduced, leaving out Harris's 'purpose' page facing the t.p., as well as the alphabet page, presumably so that a complete printing could be fit onto a single plate. The sheet was then handcolored in advance of being cut, folded, and sewn. The library owns a copy of a folded and sewn Willard edition (PML 88450)

Variant Title: 

English grammar illustrated.

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