MADE IN SCOTLAND, AN 18TH CENTURY DUSTJACKET - A Practical New Grammar, with exercises of Bad English... the Eighteenth Edition

The first grammar of modern English to be published by a woman, found here in a highly bespoke doeskin, handmade dustjacket made in Scotland in the 1780s. Handsewn to fit snugly around the surviving contemporary sheepskin binding, the jacket has been annotated with the name of its first owner and probable maker, Samuel Carson of Laggan, ‘Feb 12 1786’ who has added his name and village to several more pages, in addition to similar ownership notes by a male relative, ‘John Carson’. The location given by the Carsons, ‘Laggan’ seems most certain to be the village in Badenoch in the Scottish Highlands.

The book collates complete: xii, pp180 with heavy fingermarking to early leaves. This edition scarce institutionally: BL; Leeds; Illinois; Newcastle.