Introduction to the English Reader: or, a selection of pieces, in prose and poetry calculated to improve the younger classes of learners in reading; and to imbue their minds with the love of virtue. .

by [EDUCATION -- QUAKERS]. MURRAY, Lindley.

$250 · Offered by Biblio

Catskill & Newburgh, NY: J.S. Lewis, and Co., U.C. Lewis, Printer, 1818.` 12mo. xii, [13]-144 pp. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt ruling on spine (wear, scuffing to spine, fore-edges, some at joints, light uniform interior toning, w/o flyleaves front & back), still VG- copy, w/ ownership of Elias W. Price, E[lizabeth]town, [NY], w/ note on rear pastedown to “bring this home when you get done the piece you are writing.” Second American edition, with 20 additional pages of material of this combination teacher’s edition, and instructional volume following up his very popular “English Reader,” and “English Grammar” originally written in the 1790’s for a local Friends’ School for Girls in York, England. Before the Revolutionary War Murray (1745-1826) maintained a successful legal practice, and although having grown up amongst Quaker communities in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and New York, his grammars and readers proved wildly popular in both Great Britain and the United States, although this Catskill, NY imprint is quite uncommon. Worldcat locates only microfilm, and computer file online copies of this American edition.

• Publisher: J.S. Lewis, and Co., U.C. Lewis, Printer,
• Year: 1818
• Binding: unknown

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