The Understanding reader: or, Knowledge before oratory
Subtitle: Being a new selection of lessons, suited to the understanding and capacities of youth and designed for their improvement. I. In reading, II. In the definition of words. III. In spelling, particularly compound and derivative words. : In a method wholly different from any thing of the kind ever before published
By: By Daniel Adams, M.B. author of The scholars arithmetic, Thorough scholar, &c
Contributors: Thomas, Isaiah, Jun., 1773-1819, publisher; E. Merriam & Co
Edition: Seventh edition. [Two lines from Franklin]
Publisher: Published according to act of Congress, by Isaiah Thomas, Jun. proprietor of the copy right. Sold wholesale and retail by him in Worcester, and by all the principal booksellers in the United States. E. Merriam & Co. printers, Brookfield.
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Worcester, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Readers
Notes: Copyright Sept. 27, 1803 by Daniel Adams.

Dated [181-?] and cited without edition number in Shaw & Shoemaker. The fifth and sixth editions were issued by Thomas in 1808 and 1809, and the eighth edition in 1816.

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