The Bishop’s Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism in English. By Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Mandelbrote, Scott

doi:10.1075/hl.39.2-3.13man

Review published In: Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 39:2/3 (2012) ► pp.398–402

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The Bishop’s Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism in English. By Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Reviewed by

Scott Mandelbrote | Peterhouse, Cambridge and All Souls College, Oxford

Published online: 23 November 2012

https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.39.2-3.13man

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Alston, R[obin] C[arfrae]. 1974. A Bibliography of the English Language from the Invention of Priting to the Year 1800: A corrected reprint of volumes I–X. Ilkley: Janus Press.

Maslen, Keith & John Lancaster, eds. 1991. The Bowyer Ledgers: The Printing accounts of William Bowyer Father and Son reproduced on microfiche with a checklist of Bowyer printing 1699–1777. London: The Bibliographical Society.

Lowth, Robert. 1762. A Short Introduction to English Grammar; with critical notes […]. London: J. Hughs for A. Millar, and R. & J. Dodsley. (2nd ed., 1763, and many more; see Alston 1974 I1, pp. 42–48.)