The English school-master. : Teaching all his scholars, of what age soever, the most easie, short, and perfect order of distinct reading, and true writing our English-tongue, that hath ever yet been known or published by any. And further also, teacheth a direct course, how any unskilful person may easily both understand any hard English words, which they shall in Scriptures, sermons, or else-where, hear or read, and also be made able to use the same aptly themselves; and generally whatsoever is necessary to be known for the English speech: so that he which hath this book only, needeth to buy no other to make him fit from his letters to the grammer-school, for an apprentice, or any other private use, so far as concerneth English. And therefore it is made not only for children, though the first book be meer childish for them, but also for all other; especially for those that are ignorant in the Latine tongue. In the next page the school-master hangeth forth his table to the view of all beholders, setting forth some of the chief commodities of his profession. Devised for thy sake that wantest any part of this skill, by Edward Coote, master of the free-school in St. Edmondsbury.
1670
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Title
The English school-master. : Teaching all his scholars, of what age soever, the most easie, short, and perfect order of distinct reading, and true writing our English-tongue, that hath ever yet been known or published by any. And further also, teacheth a direct course, how any unskilful person may easily both understand any hard English words, which they shall in Scriptures, sermons, or else-where, hear or read, and also be made able to use the same aptly themselves; and generally whatsoever is necessary to be known for the English speech: so that he which hath this book only, needeth to buy no other to make him fit from his letters to the grammer-school, for an apprentice, or any other private use, so far as concerneth English. And therefore it is made not only for children, though the first book be meer childish for them, but also for all other; especially for those that are ignorant in the Latine tongue. In the next page the school-master hangeth forth his table to the view of all beholders, setting forth some of the chief commodities of his profession. Devised for thy sake that wantest any part of this skill, by Edward Coote, master of the free-school in St. Edmondsbury.
Uniform title
English schoole-maister
Edition
Perused and approved by publick authority, and now the 36 time imprinted: with certain copies to write by, at the end of this book added.
Created/published
[London] : Printed by A. Maxwell, for the Company of Stationers, 1670.
Description
[8], 77, [3] p. ; (4to)
Note
First published in 1596 as "The English schoole-maister".
Colophon at end: "London, printed for the Company of Stationers. 1670."
Colophon at end: "London, printed for the Company of Stationers. 1670."
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001-2002. The Reader Revealed (catalog entry 77)
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), C6073
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R231326
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R231326
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
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C6073
Folger-specific note
cs12. (Re-bound; formerly bound with five other Wing and STC books (see type-written note on back fly-leaf); manuscript table of contents on front fly-leaf.) manuscript markings (bookseller's code?) on foot of t.p. Trimmed and mutilated, affecting side-notes. Provenance: according to Folger card catalogue: Wilbraham family library copy