Creator
Goold Brown
Title
The Institutes of English Grammar.
Coverage
N.Y.
Publisher
The author
Date
1823
Description
Brown (1791–1857), who taught in various academies over the years, came to be known as “the grammarian’s grammarian.” He did more than anyone else to cement, in the popular mind, the inaccurate idea that grammar involves inviolable rules. Although his later work would level invective at competitors, this early book is free of it. “A small treatise on Grammar,” he wrote, “like a small map of the world, may serve to give the learner a correct idea of the more prominent features of the subject.”