The King's English is a classic book on English usage and grammar. This second edition Fowler brothers, Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler, and published in 1908, and thus pre-dates by almost years Modern English Usage, which was written by Henry alone after Francis's death in 1918. This is a facsimile version of the 1922 printing by Oxford University Press.

The King's English is less like a dictionary than Modern English Usage; it consists of longer articles on more general topics such as vocabulary, syntax and punctuation, and draws heavily on examples from many sources...