COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Author:
Eliot, John, 1604-1690.
Author (contributor):
Indigenous Languages Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Author (contributor):
Davies, John.
Author (contributor):
Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844.
Author (contributor):
Pickering, John, 1777-1846.
Title:
A grammar of the Massachusetts Indian language. /
Publisher:
Printed by Phelps and Farnham
Begin Publication Date:
1822
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991004353369706966
Permanent Call Number:
D822 .E42g
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 06575
Uniform Resource Identifier:
Subjects:
Massachuset language--Grammar.
Subjects:
Indian linguistics--Massachuset language.
Subjects:
Imprint 1822.
General Note:
"A new grammar of the Massachusetts Indian language" by John Pickering, originally printed in Massachusetts Historical Society Collection, 2nd ser., vol. 9, p. 213-312, i-liv, followed by "Notes and observations on Eliot's Indian grammar" by Peter S. Du Ponceau, p. i-xxix, followed by the Index to finish the work. This Boston edition is a reprint with title page. Cf. J.C. Pilling.; Originally printed Cambridge, 1666 with title: The Indian grammar begun: or, An essay to bring the Indian language into rules, for the help of such as desire to learn the same, for the furtherance of the Gospel among them. Original dated title page reprinted on p. [23], 1st group.; Signatures: [1]² 2-19⁴; Includes index.; Errata: foot of p. lvi.
Local Note:
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: "To the honble. John Davies LLD. from his obedt. and hble. friend John Pickering": inscription on front flyleaf.