The Columbian reader : comprising a new and various selection of elegant extracts in prose and poetry, for the use of schools in the United States : to which is prefixed an introduction on the arts of reading and speaking / by Rodolphus Dickinson, Esq. author of Geographical publications, &c.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dickinson, Rodolphus, 1787-1863, compiler.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 34573.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading.

Elocution.

Youth--Conduct of life.

Youth.

Statesmen.

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1815.

Readers.

Poems -- 1815.

Physical Description:

XXXVIII pages, 1 unnumbered page, 40-204 pages ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : Published by R.P. & C. Williams, Boston, and Ezekiel Goodale, Hallowell.--For sale by them at their respective book-stores, and by most of the book-sellers in New-England. E. Goodale, printer., 1815.

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Notes:

Preface, p. [III], dated at Boston, October 15, 1815.

Copyright May 22, 1815 by R.P. & C. Williams.

Error in paging: p. XVII misnumbered XVI.

"Introduction. General observations on the arts of reading and speaking."--p. [IX]-XXXVIII.

Includes biographical sketches of American and British statesmen, p. 109-165.

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