Early grammars and related matters of art and design. Images from institutions (attributed) and private collections (watermarked C&D). Coffee and donuts to be found elsewhere.
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Imagine others must exist, but this is the only pre-1900 grammar I’ve seen produced via lithography. Setting this one in metal would have been quite the expense.
It’s a very carefully made little book.
Norman Foerster (1887–1972) and John Steadman (1889-1945) wrote *Sentences and Thinking* in 1919. They use a tree to illustrate the structure of sentences with multiple subordinate clauses. Unfortunately, it only approximates the grammatical structure.
cysouw.github.io/graphicalgrammar/#sec5.7.3
Coffee & Donatus
A Paris copy of André Du Ryer’s 1630 Turkish grammar, annotated by a seventeenth-century French orientalist studying Turkish with the help of a manuscript Persian-Turkish dictionary. From the library of the Abbey of Saint-Victor. BnF-Arsenal, 4-BL-214
Michael Cysouw
Livingston: "The agreement and government of words are shown by lines running from one word to another. When a figure is placed under a word it shows that the word under which the figure is placed agrees with the word that the line runs to. The figures also refer to the rules to be applied."
The book includes an engraved folding alphabet table at the end.
Google surfaces an inaccessible (for me) an abstract on Brill that notes the edition was intended for travelers and workers. It notes also that is is an adaptation of the work of Caussin de Perceval.
referenceworks.brill.com/display/entr...
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Found an interesting little 19th-century lithographed Arabic grammar, with text and tables reproduced from handwritten copy. The author, Nicolas Perron (1798-1876) was a French physician, Arabist, and educator.
Found an early variety of sentence diagram in a Vermont schoolbook, William Livingston’s "An English grammar; calculated in conjunction with the Syntactical Atlas." (Middlebury: Francis Burnap, 1817)
It is the earliest syntactic digram I have seen like this printed in the United States.
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Paul Babinski
The "Syntactical Atlas" referred to in the title is the broadside, recorded here (note the author identified is likely incorrect). The diagrams appear to be unique to the book.
catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/3753...
