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The North American reader : containing a great variety of pieces in prose and poetry, from very highly esteemed American and English writers; also, observations on good reading; the Declaration of Independence; the Constitution of the United States; political definitions; variable orthography; concise principles of pronunciation; rules for the division of words; and the rules for spelling the plurals of nouns, participles, present tense, and preterit of verbs, and the comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives. : Designed for the use of the highest classes in schools and academies.

Publication date: 1836

Topics: American literature -- Anthologies, English literature -- Anthologies

Publisher: Philadelphia : Desilver, Thomas & Co. ; Trenton : B. Davenport

Collection: university_of_illinois_urbana-champaign; americana

Contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: English

xxi, [1], 24-504 p. : 19 cm

Copyright 1835 by Lyman Cobb

Wood-engraved frontispiece is the only illustration; "painted by Robert W. Weir for George P. Martin, Esq."

"Cobb's series of school books"--publisher's advertisement, p. [499]-504

Notes

Irregular pagination. Some pages wavy in physical copy.

Addeddate: 2022-08-18 18:03:02

Associated-names: Cobb, Lyman, 1800-1864, ed; Cobb, Lyman, 1800-1864, copyright holder; Weir, Robert Walter, 1803-1889, ill; Desilver, Thomas & Co. publisher