Creator
James Buchanan
Title
The Complete English Scholar in Three Parts.
Coverage
London
Publisher
A. Millar
Date
1753
Description
A Scotsman by birth, Buchanan (fl. 1740–1773) became a schoolmaster in Surrey and a prolific author of educational books and dictionaries. He wrote not only the book displayed here but also A Regular English Syntax (1767) and The British Grammar (1784)—both of which were also printed in the United States. In The Complete English Scholar, Buchanan wrote that “a wrong education of children is an evil that starves posterity.”