The Only Sure Guide To The English Tongue, Or, New Pronouncing Spelling Book

PERRY, William

Published by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, 1813

About this Item

Octavo, wood boards with leather spine, 180 pp, illustrated with engraved frontispiece and engravings in text. An early American spelling book, which includes a section of illustrated "moral tales and fables for the instruction of youth," including "The Old Man and His Ass," "The Naughty Girl Reformed," etc. One inch tear to margin of one leaf, small hole to another, quarter sized hole to another leaf. Lacking blue paper that would have covered the binding, leaving the wood boards exposed. "Spelling" inked to spine of book. Frontispiece pasted down to front cover. Upper half inch of front cover lacking. Damp staining to first half of text. This copy inscribed "Mary Mason's Book Princeton Nov 30th 1813" to rear endpaper.

Seller Inventory # 9649

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Only Sure Guide To The English Tongue, Or, New Pronouncing Spelling Book
• Publisher: Isaiah Thomas, Worcester
• Publication Date: 1813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Sixteenth Improved Edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana
  • Children's