THE VILLAGE READER: Designed For the Use of Schools

Early edition. With an engraved frontispiece of "The Town Pump". 8vo, in the original binding of full tan calf, the spine with flat bands gilt ruled and a simple black morocco label ruled and lettered in gilt. xvi, 300pp. Internally in extremely good condition for a school book of the period. These are normally found badly used, stained and foxed but this copy is solid, clean and fresh with bright white paper and dark text, nearly unheard of in this condition. The binding is worn and the front hinge is starting but still attached.

Edizione: a handsome american school primer, filled with stories, poems, lessons, rules, fables, and informative articles on things ranging from niagara falls to foreign salutations, george washington, and the settlement of new england.<br> contributors include, but are far from limited to: sir walter scott, dr. alcott, alexis de tocqueville, harriet beecher stowe, daniel webster, william cowper, oliver goldsmith, samuel woodworth, edward everett hale, the bible, nathaniel hawthorne, aaron bancroft, benjamin d'israeli, and jared sparks.