A short, plain, comprehensive, practical Latin grammar, comprising all the rules and observations necessary to an accurate knowledge of the Latin classics, having the signs of quantity affixed to certain syllables, to show their right pronunciation. With an alphabetical vocabulary. The sixth edition revised and improved. By James Ross, A. M., professor of the Latin and Greek languages, North Fourth Street, Philadelphia.

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Title A short, plain, comprehensive, practical Latin grammar, comprising all the rules and observations necessary to an accurate knowledge of the Latin classics, having the signs of quantity affixed to certain syllables, to show their right pronunciation. With an alphabetical vocabulary. The sixth edition revised and improved. By James Ross, A. M., professor of the Latin and Greek languages, North Fourth Street, Philadelphia.
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Signed Author By James Ross, A. M., professor of the Latin and Greek languages, North Fourth Street, Philadelphia.
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Volumes 1
Pagination vii, 184
Date of Publication 1818
Edition Statement The sixth edition revised and improved.
Edition Number 6
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Imprint Published by the author. Lydia R. Bailey, printer.
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Copyright Statement District of Pennsylvania, to wit: Be it remembered, That on the eleventh day of March, in the forty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1818, James Ross, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "A short, plain, comprehensive, practical Latin grammar, comprising all the rules and observations necessary to an accurate knowledge of the Latin classics, having the signs of quantity affixed to certain syllables, to show their right pronunciation. With an alphabetical vocabulary. The sixth edition revised and improved. By James Ross, A. M., professor of the Latin and Greek languages, North Fourth Street, Philadelphia. Nequis igitur tanquam parva fastidiat Grammatices elementa. Perveniri ad summa, nisi ex principiis, non potest. Quint. Qui discit, et lex ei (est) in possessionem, Et non discit fundamenta Grammatices, neque intelligit, (Est) sicut aratour; qui agit boves; Et manus ejus (est) sine baculo aut..." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act entitled, "An act supplementary to an act entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. Caldwell, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.
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Notes AAS Notes: Edition statement transposed; precedes "By James Ross ..." on title page.
Copyright March 11, 1818 by James Ross.
Recommendations, p. vii.
"Books published by the author ..."--advertisement, p. [viii].
"A vocabulary, containing the substantive and adjective nouns, which occur in this grammar."--p. 167-181.
Errata, p. 181.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Nipps, K. Lydia Bailey,
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American Antiquarian Society copy acquired via exchange with Harvard University, 1946. Has bookplate, "Harvard College Library, The Essex Institute Text-Book Collection, Gift of George Arthur Plimpton of New York, January 25, 1824; has ink stamp, "Harvard College Library, gift of George Arthur Plimpton, January 25, 1924." Inscribed: Joseph C. Abbot, Jun.
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Ross, James. A short, plain, comprehensive, practical Latin grammar, comprising all the rules and observations necessary to an accurate knowledge of the Latin classics, having the signs of quantity affixed to certain syllables, to show their right pronunciation. With an alphabetical vocabulary. The sixth edition revised and improved. By James Ross, A. M., professor of the Latin and Greek languages, North Fourth Street, Philadelphia.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 21711, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/21711. Accessed 2024-04-29. 

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