This file contains 51 entries. To indicate a sense of the publishing history of the famous McGuffey readers and spellers held in the Floyd Family Collection, the records have been arranged by main entry, date of publication, and title.
Titles appear in logical rather than strict alphabetical order.
William McGuffey wrote the Primer through the Fourth Eclectic Reader, while his brother Alexander was responsible for the Fifth through the Sixth Eclectic Reader. Alexander is also responsible for the Eclectic Speller. Another view of authorship of volume six is expressed by Harvey C. Minnich, William Holmes McGuffey and His Readers , c1936, pp. A publishing history chart appears on page 40 and a listing of various editions held by four major collections of McGuffey materials may be found on pages 186-94 of the Minnich work. A modern seven-volume facsimile reprint, excluding the Speller, concludes this catalog.