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The elementary spelling book : being an improvement on "the American spelling-book"
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Title
The elementary spelling book : being an improvement on "the American spelling-book" / by Noah Webster, LL.D.
Edition
Revised edition.
Published
New York : D. Appleton & Co., 346 & 348 Broadway, [between 1857 and 1860]
Physical Description
[7], 6-168 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Merriam 211: Imperfect?: [2] p. of advertising wanting at end? Stamp: Property of G. & C. Merriam Co., Springfield, Mass. Autograph of Frances Woods Kimball.
Notes
A revision of the American speller made by Aaron Ely, who was hired for this task by Noah Webster in 1828. See E.E.F. Skeel, Webster, p. 85.
Edition statement transposed from head of title.
"Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by Emily W. Ellsworth ... [et al.]. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by G. & C. Merriam"--T.p. verso.
"Advertisement" on t.p. verso dated May, 1857.
D. Appleton & Co. were located at 346 & 348 Broadway until 1860.
Advertising matter at front paginated 2-4, 1.
Advertisements on front pastedown and p. [1-2] for Standard school-books published by D. Appleton & Co. Advertisement for Cornell's geographies with "Get the best" at head, on p. [3].
Rear pastedown has advertising matter beginning "Educational publishing house, D. Appleton & Co." Advertisement for standard school-books on p. [4] of cover.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Juvenile literature.
Spellers - New York (State) - New York - 1857.
Publishers' advertisements.
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