An 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,etc. - 13th Edition
by Webster, Noah
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Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1803. Thirteenth Edition - 1803. An 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 of Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the Mind. Being the Third Part of a Grammatical Institute of the English Language. To Which Is Added, an Appendix, Containing Several New Dialogues. Published Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1803. 12mo., 4 1/4" x 6 3/4", 238pp., quarter leather and paper coverd boards, shelfworn, rear cover worn, inner paper covered hinges split, loss at the corners of last page affecting a few lines of text, several pages have marks in the margins, name in ink on front f/l and pastedown. Binding tight, text good. Good.. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.
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- An 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,etc. - 13th Edition
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- Webster, Noah
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- Hardcover
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- Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews
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- Boston
- Date Published
- 1803
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