The Reader: Intended to Convey Useful Facts in Early Themes for Children
by Johnson, Cuthbert W
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Kirkwall, Orkney, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: James Ridgway, 1848. No dustwrapper, some wear to the edges and corners of brown cloth-covered boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this little book, also known as ''Johnson's Rural Reader''. Contains short passages aimed at young children in the mid nineteenth century, mostly on topics relating to agriculture such as ''The Fallow Field'', ''The Corn Field'', ''Sowing and Reaping''; and on how things work; but also on the usual Victorian topics such as ''Obedience to Parents and Teachers'' and ''The Avoidance of Idleness''. Brown cloth-covered boards with blind-stamped decoration round the edges and title in the middle on both front and back covers. 96pp plus 16pp adverts for mostly agricultural books.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- JimsOldBooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004763
- Title
- The Reader: Intended to Convey Useful Facts in Early Themes for Children
- Author
- Johnson, Cuthbert W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- James Ridgway
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1848
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Rural-Readers, Schoolbooks, Johnsons-Rural-reader
- Bookseller catalogs
- Agriculture; Children's Fiction;
Terms of Sale
JimsOldBooks
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About the Seller
JimsOldBooks
Biblio member since 2004
Kirkwall, Orkney
About JimsOldBooks
Based in Kirkwall, Orkney off the north coast of Scotland. No shop, internet sales only..
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...