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Philology, Classics. Barton (John, Mʳ of Arts, and not long since Master of the Free School of Birmingham in Warwickshire), The Latine (sic) Grammar Composed in the English Tongue, first edition, London: Printed by A. Miller, for Tho. Underhill, 1652, title printed in typographical border, one leaf of index supplied in 20th c facsimile, otherwise complete and collating: [viii], 66, [26]pp; i.e. A⁴ B-F⁸ [G1 facsimile] G2-6 (G2 signed as G3), contemporary sheep over boards, blind-ruled double-fillets, uneven edges but sound, 8vo, [ESTC R172280; Wing B989a]; Anon, A Short Introduction of Grammar, [...] of the Latine (sic) Tongue, owned by a contemporary undergraduate, two parts, Oxford: At the Theater (sic), 1687, frontispiece, general and divisional title, first with Sheldonian vignette, contemporary speckled calf, 12mo; Anon, A Short Introduction to Grammar; [with] Rudimentum Grammaticæ Latinæ Metricum; [&] The Construction of the Latin Verse-Grammar For the Use of the Lower Forms, in the King's School at Westminster, schoolboy's textbook in three parts, London: W Ginger, 1781, 1789, & 1789, titles with school arms, contemporary speckled sheep, panelled, losses to spine and joints, but sound, 8vo; [Wemyss (Rev. Thomas)], An Introduction to the Latin Tongue, For the Use of Youth, Eton: M. Pote and E. Williams, 1809, school arms on title, contemporary sheep, 12mo in 6s; Saxton's Agricola of Tacitus, 1835, sheep, 8vo; etc., (6) Provenance: 2nd: 1) Samuel Leeke, of Lichborough, Northamptonshire, matriculated Lincoln College, Oxford, 1688/89; E Lib: Sam: Leeke/Scoll Linc Oxon Aug 30th 1689, Pret £0 1s 6d, ink MS inscription on ffep. By descent to his ?son 2) Richard Leeke; E Lib. Rich. Leeke, Ex Aula Corvina Oxon, March 25 1728 ; inscription below the former. The first a very rare schoolboy's primer: 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).
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