The Understanding reader: or Knowledge before oratory. : Being a new selection of lessons, suited to the understanding and 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. 16792.

Language:

English

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1808.

Readers.

Anthologies.

Spellers.

Physical Description:

vi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 8-227 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 18 cm

Edition:

Fifth edition. [Two lines from Franklin].

Place of Publication:

[Worcester, Mass.] : Published according to act of Congress, by Isaiah Thomas, Jun. proprietor of the copy right. Sold wholesale and retail by him in Worcester, and by all the principal booksellers in the United States. E. Merriam & Co., printers, Brookfield., [1808]

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Notes:

Copyright Sept. 27, 1803 by Daniel Adams.

Tentatively dated 1809 by Shaw & Shoemaker. However, the fifth edition was advertised in the Oct. 19, 1808 issue of the Massachusetts spy, Worcester, as "now in the press," and in the issue of Dec. 7, 1808 as "This day published."

Last page blank.

Error in paging: p. 203 misnumbered 103.

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. 16792).

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