The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a Variety of Selected and Original Pieces
Boston: West & Richardson, 1814. Tenth Edition. Originally published in 1800, this edition of Staniford's perennial schoolbook is in scarce condition, being largely unmarked and in the original scaleboards. In Michael V. Belok's 1968 essay "Forming the American Character: Essayists and Schoolbooks" Social Science Vol. 43, No. 1 (Jan.....