Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Grammars, grammarians and grammar writing: An -- introduction -- Part 1. Background -- Background: Introduction -- The eighteenth-century grammarians as language -- experts -- Grammar writers in eighteenth-century Britain: A -- community of practice or a discourse community? -- Eighteenth-century grammars and book -- catalogues -- Part 2. Reception and the market for -- grammars -- Reception and the market for grammars: -- Introduction -- Bellum Grammaticale (1712) ... A battle of books and -- a battle for the market -- The 1760s: Grammars, grammarians and the -- booksellers -- Mid-century grammars and their reception in the -- Monthly Review and the Critical Review -- Part 3. The grammarians -- The grammarians: Introduction -- Ann Fisher's A New Grammar, or was it Daniel Fisher -- s work? -- Joseph Priestley's two Rudiments of English -- Grammar: 1761 and 1768 -- Eighteenth-century teacher-grammarians and the -- education of "proper" women -- "Borrowing a few passages": Lady Ellenor Fenn and -- her use of sources -- Part 4. The grammars -- The grammars: Introduction -- Preposition stranding in the eighteenth century: -- Something to talk about -- Foolish, foolisher, foolishest: Eighteenth-century -- English grammars and the comparison of adjectives and adverbs -- On normative grammarians and the double marking of -- degree -- Backmatter