The English reader: or, Pieces in prose and poetry, selected from the best writers. : Designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect; to improve their language and sentiments; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue. : With a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading. / By Lindley Murray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826, compiler.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 38329.

Language:

English

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1816.

Readers.

Poems -- 1816.

Anthologies.

Publishers' advertisements -- New Jersey -- Burlington.

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 312 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

The first Burlington edition, revised and corrected.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, N.J. : Printed and sold by David Allinson., 1816.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

"To the publick. The publisher of the present edition of this valuable school book, thinks it necessary to apprise his customers of some alterations in this, from the current copies; with which they would otherwise remark perhaps, with an unfavorable construction. ... 1st Mo. 1816."--verso of title page.

"David Allinson has lately published ..."--p. xix.

"David Allinson has for sale ..."--p. xxiv.

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. 38329).

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