The English school-master : teaching all his scholars, of what age soever, the most easie, short, and perfect order of distinct reading, and true writing our English-tongue, that hath ever yet been known or published by any ... / by Edward Coote, master of the Free-School in St. Edmonds Bury.

Author
Coote, Edmund, active 1597 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Now the 29 time imprinted : with certain copies to write by, at the end of this book added.
Published/​Created
London : Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for the Company of Stationers, 1658.
Description
8 unnumbered pages, 77 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 18 cm (4⁰)

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Summary note
Alphabet letters, short syllables, dipthongs, simple vocabulary words, and short passages, followed by question-and-answer dialogues and "A Short Catechism," prayers, psalms (in two columns), and a chronology of the world After the Creation, from "Seth, 130" to Christ's birth "in the year 42 of Augustus," to the "Gothes conquered Italy, then increased barbarism, and Papistry, 500."
Notes
  • Preliminaries printed in italics and Roman font; the two books of the English School-master printed in black letter, with marginal instructions and commentary for teachers printed in Roman.
  • Printed examples of secretary hand on unnumbered page [78] after the author's farewell to the reader.
  • Illustrations: Woodcut frontispiece (on title page verso), depicting a seated teaching master and a class with one student standing and reading from a book (Magister cum discipulis) and woodcut pictorial headpiece on unnumbered page [8].
  • Princeton copy 1: Lacks the final leaf with a prayer and colophon called for by ESTC (cited below).
  • Princeton copy 1: Contemporary inked initial on front free endpaper, facing title page, with later penciled writing and markings on both pastdowns and facing free endpapers.
  • Princeton copy 1: Small bookplate of "John Lawson" on front pastedown.
Binding note
Princeton copy 1: Later three-quarters smooth brown calf with gilt-ruled borders on covers; black morocco spine label gilt-stamped with title: "Coote's English school-master."
References
English short title catalogue, R171517
Other title(s)
Coote's English school-master
OCLC
57677814
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