Reading without tears or, a pleasant mode of learning to read. By the author of 'Peep of Day,' &c. &c. . Forty-fifth thousand
Published by Hatchards, Piccadilly, London, 1876
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Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
AbeBooks seller since July 18, 1997
Condition: Used
US$ 75.00
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Two parts in one (the second part is 'seventh thousand'), square 12mo, pp. 270; [4], 292, 6 (ads); wood-engraved frontispiece and a number of illustrations throughout; contemporary half roan over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; spine rather scuffed, but the binding is sound. "Bevan oversaw the religious education of children on her father's estates, at Fosbury, in Wiltshire and in East Barnet and her interest in educational writing grew from that experience. She developed her own method of teaching children to read based on an early kind of 'flash cards' rather than the traditional hornbook, with her Reading Disentangled (1834), a set of phonics flashcards, being credited by some as the first flashcards. Her teaching notes were collected and appeared as such works as Peep of Day and Reading Without Tears. According to Todd Pruzan, "For the better part of the 19th century, Mrs. Mortimer was something of a literary superstar to an impressionable audience, both in her native England and beyond" (Wikipedia).…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Reading without tears or, a pleasant mode of learning to read. By the author of 'Peep of Day,' &c. &c. . Forty-fifth thousand
- Author
- Mortimer, Favell Lee [i.e., Favell Lee Bevan]
- Publisher
- Hatchards, Piccadilly, London
- Publication year
- 1876
- Seller catalogs
- Education, English Literature, Juveniles
Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
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Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
400 Summit Ave.
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