This volume provides research libraries with a rich compilation of citations to English grammars.
- S. Van Sant, Michigan State University,
The inclusion of available contemporary documentation from material such as advertisements or comment in other nineteenth-century grammars can be particularly interesting in this context. Overall, this is a useful bibliographic guide, collecting and collating a variety of source materials [...].
- L.C. Mugglestone, Pembroke College, Oxford,
Remarquablement conçue et organisée, cette bibliographie analytique, critique et commentée rendra les plus grands services à qui veut avoir une vue quelque peu comparative des modes d'approche de la linguistique et de la didactique d'une langue [...]
- Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gérand, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand,
The bibliography is an important work that it opens up a whole new area of research.
- Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, University of Leiden, The Netherlands,
Because may of the works listed here are probably unknown or rare, G's bibliography should be useful to linguists concerned with the study of the English language.
- Eduardo Faingold, University of Tulsa,
[...] a work for which historians of English grammar have long been waiting.
- John B. Walmsley, Bielefeld,
[...] this is a work for which historians of English grammar have long been waiting. It extends into the nineteenth century the coverage of English grammar hitherto provided by Alston up to 1800.
- John B. Walmsley, Bielefeld, Germany, in Anglia, Band 119, heft 3 (2001),
This bibliography lists some 1930 works on English grammar published in the 19th century, mainly in Britain and the US, half of which are accompanied by short descriptions of their physical make-up, content and affiliation.