The Understanding reader; or, Knowledge before oratory. : Being a new selection of lessons, suited to the understandings and the capacities of youth, and designed for their improvement. I. In reading. II. In the definition of words. III. In spelling, particularly, compound and derivative words. : In a method wholly different from any thing of the kind ever before published. / By Daniel Adams, M.B. author of The scholar's arithmetic, Thorough scholar, &c.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Daniel, 1773-1864.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 5657.

Language:

English

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1804.

Readers.

Anthologies.

Spellers.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Leominster.

Physical Description:

vi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 8-224 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Edition:

Second edition. [Two lines from Franklin] ; Published according to act of Congress.

Place of Publication:

Leominster, Mass. : Printed by Adams & Wilder, for the author; sold by him at Leominster,--sold also in various places.--(Price 37 1/2 cents single--3 dolls. 50 cents per doz.), July, 1804.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.

Copyright Sept. 27, 1803.

"New school books, for sale by Adams & Wilder."--p. [225-228].

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 5657).

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