Verkäufer Athena Rare Books ABAA, Fairfield, CT, USA
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Half title + TP + [i] = Dedication page to the University of Cambridge + [iii] = Contents + [iv] = 2 Quotes + [1]=519 + [520] = Errata. Octavo. First Edition. This is the first edition of the First Part. The Second Part was not published until 19 years later, in 1805. John Horne Tooke was born John Horne, but in 1782 he added the name of his benefactor, William Tooke, who had made John Horne is heir. This book was written while residing at the elder Tooke's estate, Purley House - and hence the name. An inventive and adventurous philologist, Tooke claimed that all words were at bottom either nouns or verbs andthat they had no essential connection to either things or the objects of thought. William Hazlitt claimed this book was "in truth, one of the few philosophical works on Grammar that were ever written."As a philologist, Horne Tooke deserves credit for seeing the necessity of studying Gothic and Anglo-Saxon, and learnt enough to be much in advance of Johnson in that direction. His philology was meant to subserve a characteristic philosophy. Locke, he said, had made a happy mistake when he called his book an essay upon human understanding instead of an essay upon grammar. (DNB)It was clear even to his contemporaries that many of the etymologies were wrong, but in spite of these errors such important figures as Erasmus Darwin, Coleridge, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, and Hazlitt were still greatly impressed by Tooke's accomplishment and the soundness of his system. Contemporary marbled boards with a contemporary tan paper spine with gilt lettering on a red field. With a large former owner's book plate (Greek illustration a circle above ornate lettering for "Erasmus Hall Library") to the inside front cover. A clean, tight and bright lovely and unsophisticated contemporary copy of this important milestone in the history of English etymology and philology. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1105
Bibliografische Details
Titel: The Diversions of Purley. Part One (Winged ...
Verlag: J. Johnson, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1786
Auflage: FIRST EDITION.
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