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Willson's larger speller : a progressive course of lessons in spelling, arranged according to the principles of orthoepy and grammar, with exercises in synonyms, for reading, spelling, and writing, and a new system of definitions / by Marcius Willson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PE1145 .W6 1864 Kaplan copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willson, Marcius, 1813-1905.
- Series:
- Harper's school and family series.
- Harper's school and family series
- Standardized Title:
- Larger speller
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spellers--Textbooks.
- Spellers.
- English language--Orthography and spelling.
- English language.
- Spellers--Textbooks--Juvenile literature.
- English language--Orthography and spelling--Textbooks--Juvenile literature.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Spellers -- 1864.
- Textbooks -- 1864.
- Publishers' advertisements -- New York (State) -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)
- Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)
- Wolf, Emil (autograph) (inscription) (Kaplan Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 168 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- [Revised edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Brothers, [1864]
- Contents:
- Explanatory preface
- Additional directions and suggestions
- Spelling lessons
- Words alike in sound, but unlike in spelling and signification
- Exercises in synonyms
- Defining lessons
- Letters, words, and sentences; pauses and other marks used in writing and printing ; the use of capital letters ; rules for spelling.
- Notes:
- Binding: one quarter cloth over printed paper boards; publisher's advertisements on right board.
- Local Notes:
- Kaplan Collection copy has ms. note ("Book Plate Front and Back") in pencil on front pastedown; ms. sketch of a bird in pencil next to ms. inscription ("Emaus") in ink on verso of back free endpaper.
- Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.
- Kaplan Collection copy formerly owned by Emil Wolf (b. ca. 1863) with his dated autographs on front pastedown ("Emil Wolf Upper Medford Lehigh Co Pa. 1877"), front free endpaper ("Emil Wolf 1876 Emaus Lehigh Co Pa") and back free endpaper ("Emil Wolf"); red ink stencil(?) ("E Wolf") on verso of back free endpaper; ms. sketch of a bird with banderole containing the inscription "E Wolf 1876" (possibly traced and/or decorated by a later hand) on front free endpaper; ms. sketch of a bird with banderole containing the inscription "Emil Wolf Emaus Lehigh Co Pa" (year "1876" added, perhaps by a different hand, at end of inscription).
- OCLC:
- 3940609
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