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[The Columbian spelling and reading book, or An easy and alluring guide to spelling and reading ...]
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PE1144 .C3 1800z
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spellers--1500-1800.
- Spellers.
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Easy and alluring guide to spelling and reading.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed for Mathew Carey ..., [between 1800 and 1809?]
- Contents:
- Part 1. The alphabet
- pt. 2. Words of two syllables
- pt. 3. Words of three syllables
- pt. 4. Words of four syllables
- pt. 5. Words of five syllables
- pt. 6. Proper names of persons and places
- pt. 7. A collection of words nearly alike in sound
- pt. 8. Of figures or numbers, Of points and stops, Of the names and use of other marks, General observations on the sounds of the letters.
- Notes:
- Published anonymously. Attributed to Mathew Carey. Cf. 1798 ed. in Evans.
- Fables from Dodsley's collection interspersed in parts 2-6.
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: all pages preceding [3] wanting. Title information from Evans.
- OCLC:
- 185063548
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