GRAMMAR FOR REPUBLICAN ÉMIGRÉS
COBBETT, William.
Le Maitre d’anglais, ou grammaire raisonné … troisième edition …
Paris, Warée l’aîné, et al. 1803.
8vo, pp. xiv, 460, with a half-title; a very good copy in contemporary French speckled calf, red morocco spine label, head of spine chipped.
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Le Maitre d’anglais, ou grammaire raisonné … troisième edition …
Third (second Paris) edition, with tables and explanatory notes added by Scipion Duroure.
‘Cobbett’s first occupation in America was the teaching of English to French émigrés, mostly moderate Republicans, who had fled to America after the fall of the Girondins … His first work, written in French to aid his students, was … Le Tuteur Anglais, an English grammar written in French. This was not actually published until 1795 [in Philadelphia] … The little volume afterwards had an enormous circulation. Reprinted in France under the title Le Maitre Anglais, it passed through forty or more editions’ (G. D. H. Cole, The Life of William Cobbett, 1924).
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