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The American spelling book: containing an easy standard of pronunciation. : Being the first part of A grammatical institute of the English language. In three parts. / By Noah Webster, Jun. Esquire.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 3517.
- Standardized Title:
- Grammatical institute of the English language. Part 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Orthography and spelling.
- English language.
- English language--Pronunciation.
- Children--Conduct of life.
- Children.
- Genre:
- Readers.
- Spellers.
- Juvenile literature -- 1802.
- Fables -- 1802.
- Questions and answers.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Connecticut -- Hartford.
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 10-165 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- The Twenty-fifth Connecticut edition.
- Other Title:
- An easy standard of pronunciation.
- Place of Publication:
- Hartford: : Printed by Hudson & Goodwin. (With the privilege of copy right.), [1802]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- First published under title: A grammatical institute of the English language ... part 1.
- Running title: An easy standard of pronunciation.
- Some illustrations engraved by Alexander Anderson. Cf. Skeel.
- Dedicated to Rev. Ezra Stiles.
- Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.
- Imprint date suggested by the last figure "1802" in "Of numbers," p. 119.
- "Recommendations."--p. [iii-iv].
- "A short introduction to grammar: being an abridgement of the second part of the Institute."--p. [133]-153.
- "A moral catechism; or Lessons for Saturday."--p. 154-165.
- "Hudson & Goodwin, at their book-store ... have constantly for sale ..."--p. [166].
- 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. 3517).
- Contains:
- Webster, Noah, 1758-1843. Grammatical institute of the English language. Part 2. Selections.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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