The Understanding reader: or, Knowledge before oratory : Being a new selection of lessons, suited to the understanding and capacities of youth and designed for their improvement. I. In reading, II. In the definition of words. III. In spelling, particularly compound and derivative words. : In a method wholly different from any thing of the kind ever before published. / By Daniel Adams, M.B. author of The scholars arithmetic, Thorough scholar, &c.

Author/creator Adams, Daniel
Format Electronic
EditionSeventh edition. [Two lines from Franklin].
Publication Info[Worcester, Mass.] : Published according to act of Congress, by Isaiah Thomas, Jun. proprietor of the copy right. Sold wholesale and retail by him in Worcester, and by all the principal booksellers in the United States. E. Merriam & Co. printers, Brookfield, [between 1810 and 1815]
Descriptionvi, 1 unnumbered page, 8-228 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Supplemental ContentShaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition

SeriesEarly American imprints. Second series no. 19302. ^A575643
General noteCopyright Sept. 27, 1803 by Daniel Adams.
General noteDated [181-?] and cited without edition number in Shaw & Shoemaker. The fifth and sixth editions were issued by Thomas in 1808 and 1809, and the eighth edition in 1816.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 19302
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 19302).
Genre/formJuvenile literature 1810.
Genre/formReaders.
Genre/formAnthologies.
Genre/formSpellers.

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