Except for my quarto dictionary, I consider it...the most valuable work I have ever published
A philosophical and practical grammar of the English language
New Haven: Brisban & Brannan, 1807. First edition, 12mo, pp. 250, original full calf, gilt-paneled spine; light dampstaining to the upper gutter; all else very good and sound. Of this small grammar Webster wrote in an 1805 letter to the American publisher Mathew Carey: "I am compiling a Grammar upon..... More