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The American spelling book; : containing the rudiments of the English language, for the use of schools in the United States. / By Noah Webster, Esquire.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 Available online
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 42852.
- Standardized Title:
- Grammatical institute of the English language. Part 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Orthography and spelling.
- English language--Pronunciation.
- Children--Conduct of life.
- Genre:
- Readers.
- Spellers.
- Juvenile literature -- 1817.
- Fables -- 1817.
- Questions and answers.
- Physical Description:
- vi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 9-168 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Edition:
- Revised copy--West's edition.
- Other Title:
- An easy standard of pronunciation.
- Place of Publication:
- Printed at Boston, : by T.W. White, no. 100, Court Street, for West & Richardson, proprietors of the copy right. Sold, wholesale and retail, at their bookstore, no. 75, Cornhil also by West and Blake[,] O.C. Greenleaf, Thomas and Andrews, in Boston, by Thomas and Whipple and E. Little and Co. Newburyport; J.F. Shores and Tappan and Foster, Portsmouth;--and other booksellers in the United States., 1817.
- 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.
- District of Connecticut copyright Mar. 14, 1804, by Noah Webster.
- Some illustrations engraved by Alexander Anderson. Cf. Skeel.
- Another issue is without "By T.W. White, no. 100, Court Street," on the title page. Shaw & Shoemaker entry 42852 does not differentiate between the issues.
- Error in paging: p. 15 misnumbered 13.
- "Additional lessons."--p. 151-156.
- "A moral catechism."--p. 156-168.
- 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. 42852).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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