The Youth's instructor in the English tongue: or The art of spelling improved. : Being a more plain, easy, and regular method of teaching young children, with a greater variety of very useful collections, than any other book of this kind and bigness extant. In three parts. I. Containing monosyllables, expressing the most natural and easy things to the apprehensions of children; with common words, and Scripture names. II. Being an introduction more particularly for children of an higher class. III. Rules in arithmetick, with forms of bills, bonds, releases, &c. very useful for all persons. The whole being intermixed with variety of exercises, in prose and verse, adapted to the capacities of children. / Collected from Dixon, Bailey, Owen, Strong, and Watts. ; For the use of schools.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dixon, Henry.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41781.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Orthography and spelling.

English language.

Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.

Arithmetic.

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1767.

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148+ pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed by W. M'Alpine, about mid-way between the governor's and Dr. Gardiner's, Marlborough-Street., MDCCLXVII. [1767]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, lacks all pages after pages 148.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 41781).

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Bristol B2830

Shipton and Mooney 41781

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