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Introduction to the Pictorial Reader, Containing a Variety of Easy and Instructive Lessons Upon the Most Familiar Subjects: Illustrated with Numerous Engravings, and Adapted to the Capacities of Young Children

Type:

Document

Description/Abstract:

1847 printing of 1842 copyrighted text. Author is credited as the author of the pictorial spelling book, pictorial primer, etc. Includes a recommendation of the Ward School Teachers' Association of the City of New York for a set of three books by the author. Preface states there are three objects of importance: to make the lessons pleasing, instructive, and moral. The work contains original and selected lessons (readings) on familiar subjects adapted to their level of comprehension. Engravings illustrate many lessons. Moral principles are taught through binaries such as good and evil, kindness and cruelty, and truth and falsehood. Schultz Archive copy is roughly the entire text. TOC is at the end and is partially cut off.

Creator/Author:

Bentley, Rensselaer

Submitter:

Russel Durst

Date Uploaded:

05/24/2016

Date Modified:

07/20/2020

Date Created:

1847

License:

Public Domain Mark 1.0