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FOX, GEORGE; STUBS, JOHN; and FURLEY, BENJAMIN. A Battle-Door for Teachers & Professors to learn Singular & Plural;You to Many, and Thou to One: Singular One, Thou; Plural, Many, You. [4], 96, 91-94, 12, 8, 12, 19, [1], 18, 17 [i. e., 20], 19, [5], 28 pages, with errata slip mounted on seventh D5v and cancel slip on last page. Folio, 266x165 mm, contemporary sheep, rebacked; contents toned with occasional marginal soiling and spotting, scattered ink blots, title browned in margins, large stain on eighth A2r, front free endpaper lacking. Signature of John Crooke dated 1698; 19th-century signature of Charles B. Warner; bookplate of Alan Lubbock. London: Robert Wilson, 1660
first edition of a linguistic treatise co-authored by Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends, analyzing second-person pronominal usage in some 35 European and non-European languages to justify the Quaker use of "thou" and "thee" in the singular and "you" in the plural. At the end is a critique of objectionable language in contemporary English schoolbooks. The book is notable for its typography and design, employing Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic, Samaritan, Coptic, Armenian, Anglo-Saxon, and Irish types, and section titles printed within a rule border in the shape of a battledore or hornbook. Wing F1751.
