ROLLO LEARNING TO READ

by Jacob Abbot

$250 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

New York: Samuel Colman, 1839. Early edition of the book that made the Rollo series big, intended to instruct the novice American reader by combining a mature vocabulary with a lively series of animal metamorphoses and moral lessons. Very good. Item #50727 The hapless and ungrateful Rollo made his first cameo appearance in the rare THE LITTLE SCHOLAR LEARNING TO TALK: A Picture Book for Rollo, by His Father, reissued in

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