A Spelling Book, formed upon an easy, systematical plan, and designed for small children and beginners.
Windsor[, Vermont]: Printed by Oliver Farnsworth, 1815.
Price: $550.00
About the item
First Edition. 1 vols. Small Square 8vo. Wonderful original printed steel blue paper over wooden boards. Spine nearly gone, wear to boards, but internally good with some darkening and mostly marginal dampstaining. In pale blue-green cloth case with black spine label, gilt. McCorison, Vermont Imprints, #1717; American Imprints 34198; Not in Welch; Nietz, Old Textbooks, p. 20.
Item #12358
In referring to Bradley’s “An Improved Spelling Book,” similar in format to this one and published the same year, Nietz informs us that “this book was different from many others in several respects. First, Bradley frankly acknowledged that ‘the extracts have been taken from Webster, Wood, Picket, Alden, Bingham, Flint, Murray, Hubbard, Fordyce, Walker, the American Gentleman's Pronouncing Dictionary, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Morse, and Dr. Blair [all authors of spellers].’ A second different feature was that all of the content, other than the spelling words, was presented in catechetical form” (Nietz).
