Sanders Pictorial Primer Introduction First by Sanders Charles J C (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 12mo. 48pp. Illustrated. Quarter cloth and green glazed paper over boards. Pencil signature dated 1858, dampstain prominent on first few leaves and receding after that, some smudging and wear on the boards and pages, a sound, good copy. Among the illustrations in the book is one on called "The Play-Ground" (p.23) that depicts, among several other activities, a boy batting a pitched ball. A larger version of the same image is used as a frontispiece. Unlike most pre-Civil War baseball illustrations, the batter has assumed a stance that could possibly result in success.

Frontispiece illustration showing pitcher and a batter repeated on p. 23 with the caption "The Play Ground." Numerous engravings. 48 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Charles Sanders was the author of a very successful series of school readers. His first primer was published in 1840 with the same image, and the "Pictorial Primer" appeared in 1846. American Imprints cites two other edition of the Pictorial Primer in the 1846 volume; OCLC adds two more. The American Antiquarian Society dates this edition as "between 1846 and 1850?" based on the imprint. A new edition of the "Pictorial Primer" copyrighted 1858 has a baseball-playing illustration with the same caption but a different image. American Imprint 46-6243; Block, Baseball before We Knew It, p. 209 Contemporary cloth-backed green boards. Some light scattered foxing; Very Good Frontispiece illustration showing pitcher and a batter repeated on p. 23 with the caption "The Play Ground." Numerous engravings. 48 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.