Creator
Thomas Dyche & William Pardon
Title
“A Compendious English Grammar,” in A New General English Dictionary.
Coverage
London
Publisher
Richard Ware
Date
1737
Subject
2d ed.
Description
First published eight years after Dyche’s death in 1727, this book was one of the more important pre-Johnson English dictionaries. The “Compendious Grammar” consists of ten pages in the front matter—an early instance of prefacing a dictionary with a grammar. Dyche (or Pardon) wrote: “The vulgar error among the generality of people is that young persons are necessitated to learn the Latin, or Lily’s Grammar, to understand English.”