Mentor : or The American teacher's assistant. Being a selection of essays, instructive and entertaining, from the most approved authors in the English language. Intended to diffuse a true taste for elegance in style and sentiment, by exhibiting to the youth of our schools, just models of composition; and with a view to the improvement and amusement of young persons at classical and other schools, and to facilitate the invaluable arts of reading and writing. By John Wood, master of the Episcopal Charity School, and teacher of English grammar, &c. in New-York. [Four lines of verse from Mason].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wood, John, editor.

Wood, John, publisher.

Buel, John, 1768?-1800, printer.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Readers--United States--Early works to 1800.

Readers.

United States.

Genre:

Readers.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages,iii pages, 2 unnumbered pages,6-374 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

New-York : Printed by John Buel, for the author. Sold by most of the booksellers in the United States, M,DCC,XCV. [1795]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Two states of gathering 2I noted, with and without "[Copy-right secured.]" at the foot of p. 374. Also, p. ii-iii are numbered in some copies, unnumbered in others.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.

Cited in:

Evans, 29917

English Short Title Catalog, W25390.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.