Readers -- Early works to 1800
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
American selection of lessons in reading and speaking : calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth, and also, to instruct them in the geography, history, and politics of the United States, to which are prefixed, rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind; being the third part of a grammatical institute of the English language / by Noah Webster, Jun. Esquire, author of "Dissertation on the English language," "Collection of essays and fugitive writings, " &c.
Item — Volume Archives Chandler Collection no. 149
Identifier: 660 - Chandler Collection no. 149
Abstract
Publisher: [Boston] : Printed at Boston by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews ..., 1790.
Description: 239, [1] p. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Notes: Woodcut port. of author, p. [2], has heading: Part III. Thomas and Andrews’s First Edition.; Signatures: A-U⁶.; Paul G. Chandler Textbook Collection.; Thomas and Andrews’s 1st ed. / with many corrections and improvements, by the author.
Dates:
1790
Found in:
Clarion University Archives
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American selection of lessons in reading and speaking : calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth, and also, to instruct them in the geography, history, and politics of the United States, to which are prefixed, rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind; being the third part of a grammatical institute of the English language / by Noah Webster, Jun. Esquire, author of "Dissertation on the English language," "Collection of essays and fugitive writings, " &c.
Orator; : being a collection of pieces in prose and verse, selected from the best English writers, both ancient and modern; intended to facilitate the advancement of youth in reading and speaking. To which is added an appendix. Containing complete lists of all the words in the English language, which have a similarity of sound; and likewise, of those substantives, verbs and adjectives, which (though written in the same manner) vary the seat of the accent. / By William Perry, lecturer on the English language, in the Academy, Edinburgh.
Item — Volumes Archives Chandler Collection no. 202
Identifier: 660 - Chandler Collection no. 202
Abstract
Publisher: Edinburgh: : Printed for Charles Elliot, Parliament-Square,, 1776.
Description: xii, [1], 14-303, [1] p. ; 18 cm. (12mo in 6s)
Notes: Redwood Library copy imperfect: top portion of first two leaves torn away, affecting first two words of title.; Advertisements on p. [v]-[vii].; Errata on final page.; Paul G. Chandler Textbook Collection.
Dates:
1776
Found in:
Clarion University Archives
/
Orator; : being a collection of pieces in prose and verse, selected from the best English writers, both ancient and modern; intended to facilitate the advancement of youth in reading and speaking. To which is added an appendix. Containing complete lists of all the words in the English language, which have a similarity of sound; and likewise, of those substantives, verbs and adjectives, which (though written in the same manner) vary the seat of the accent. / By William Perry, lecturer on the English language, in the Academy, Edinburgh.