The tutor to true English: or, brief and plain directions, whereby all that can read and write may attain to orthography, (or the exact writing of English) as readily as if bred scholars ... / by Henry Care.

The tutor to true English: or, brief and plain directions, whereby all that can read and write may attain to orthography, (or the exact writing of English) as readily as if bred scholars ... / by Henry Care.

The second edition corrected.

London : Printed for B. Care, and sold by John Nut near Stationers-Hall, 1699.

1 item ; 8vo

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Great Britain -- England -- London, -- publication place.

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From dealer's description: "List 89, item 7 CARE, Henry. THE TUTOR TO TRUE ENGLISH: or, brief and plain directions, whereby all that can read and write may attain to Orthography, (or the exact writing of English) as readily as if bred scholars. Very much conducing likewise to the due sounding and perfect reading all sorts of words used in the English tongue. With an introduction to Arithmetic; more easie than any yet extant. And several other observations of general use; especially for the youth of either sex, and forreigners... The second edition corrected... London, printed for B. Care, and sold by John Nut near Stationers-Hall. 1699. £950 8vo, pp. [viii], 104; rather foxed throughout, but complete and otherwise in good condition; rebound in plain sheep in an imitation of contemporary style; spine faded. Unrecorded issue of the second edition. This book was first printed in 1687 for George Larkin, and the same sheets were reissued twice more in 1688 and 1690 (Wing C533, 534 and 534A). All of these issues are very scarce, with ESTC locating only thirteen copies between them. Such reissues normally mean that a book was selling slowly, but presumably all copies were sold a dozen years after first publication, by which time Care himself had died, leaving a widow, Bridget or Brigitta. This second edition of The Tutor to True English was published in 1699, and there are again two issues, one with B. Care (surely Henry’s relict) as joint publisher with John Nutt, and the other with Edward Mory in the imprint. Bridget Care herself also died in 1699, and one can plausibly imagine her edition being bought up after her death by Mory, who then used his own name in the imprint. This present issue is unrecorded, and of the other one, just two are known, at the British Library in the UK, and the Clark in the US. Henry Care (1646/7-88), polemicist and hack writer, wrote on a wide variety of subjects: this work deals not only with English grammar, but also includes a brief introduction to arithmetic and a section on weights and measures. In addition, there is a most interesting chapter on homophones (or near-homophones), which distinguishes between words which, perhaps, we now do not think of as sounding similar at all: ‘The Mayor of our Town, on his bay Mare, rid out to meet the Major of the Regiment; who came in a Coat of Mail, attended by Twenty of the Male Sex, who all made a Meal together, but were forc’d to send Miles the Footman down to the Mills, which were two Miles off...’ (p. 50). Not in Wing, but see C534B (the Mory issue)."

Ordered from Christopher Edwards, D9674, 2023-08-07, List 89, item #7.

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