Barton (John). The Latine Grammar composed in the English Tongue; wherein the Excrescencies of the ordinary Grammar are cut off, and the Deficiencies thereof (so generally complained against) supplied; for the more easie, speedy and certain direction of all those, that have a desire to attain unto the understanding of that usefull and necessary Language, 1st edition, London: printed by A. Miller for Tho. Underhill, 1652, [8], 66 [26 of 28] pp., signatures A4 B-F8 G6 (-G1, index leaf, absent), quires E-F held by bottom cord only, no endpapers, contemporary blind-ruled sheep, rubbed, small perforation in front board, 8vo (14 x 9.4 cm) (Qty: 1) ESTC R172280; Wing B989aA. Very rare: ESTC traces two copies only world-wide (Birmingham Central Libraries and Canterbury Cathedral). 'The oldest known Birmingham book' (Harman & Showell, Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham, unpaginated). John Barton was master of King Edward's School in Birmingham from 1639 to 1645, having been recruited by the school tenants who were 'outraged that so few of [Barton's predecessor] Billingsley's pupils were being sent up to the universities' (ODNB); he is described on the title-page as 'not long since Master of the Free School of Birmingham in Warwickshire'.
Barton (John). The Latine Grammar composed in the English Tongue; wherein the Excrescencies of the ordinary Grammar are cut off, and the Deficiencies thereof (so generally complained against) supplied; for the more easie, speedy and certain direction of all those, that have a desire to attain unto the understanding of that usefull and necessary Language, 1st edition, London: printed by A. Miller for Tho. Underhill, 1652, [8], 66 [26 of 28] pp., signatures A4 B-F8 G6 (-G1, index leaf, absent), quires E-F held by bottom cord only, no endpapers, contemporary blind-ruled sheep, rubbed, small perforation in front board, 8vo (14 x 9.4 cm) (Qty: 1) ESTC R172280; Wing B989aA. Very rare: ESTC traces two copies only world-wide (Birmingham Central Libraries and Canterbury Cathedral). 'The oldest known Birmingham book' (Harman & Showell, Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham, unpaginated). John Barton was master of King Edward's School in Birmingham from 1639 to 1645, having been recruited by the school tenants who were 'outraged that so few of [Barton's predecessor] Billingsley's pupils were being sent up to the universities' (ODNB); he is described on the title-page as 'not long since Master of the Free School of Birmingham in Warwickshire'.
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