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The New, American spelling-book, improved. : In three parts. Containing, I. Tables of common words, from one to five syllables ... II. A collection of words of two, three, and four syllables ... III. A plain and easy introduction to English grammar, particularly adapted to the capacities of youth. / Compiled by John Peirce.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PE1144 .N4 1808
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Orthography and spelling.
- English language.
- Spellers.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Rhoads, Adam (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- iv, 166, that is, 152 pages ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Edition:
- The sixth revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, no. 87, High-Street, between Second and Third-Streets., 1808. (Entered according to law.)
- Notes:
- Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.
- Another sixth revised edition contains 200 p.
- Page 152 incoorectly numbered 166.
- Bookseller's advertisement on verso of title leaf.
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker 15862
- OCLC:
- 1827510
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