Second class book
Subtitle: principally consisting of historical, geographical, and biographical lessons, adapted to the capacities of youth, and designed for their improvement : intended for the use of schools
By: by A.T. Lowe, M.D., author of The Columbian class book
Contributors: Lowe, A. T. (Abraham Thompson), 1796-1888, copyright holder; Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850, engraver; Dorr & Howland; Carter, Hendee & Babcock; Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Dorr & Howland.
Published: 1831
Place of publication: Worcester, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Geography; Juvenile literature; Manners and customs; Natural history; Indians of North America; History
Notes: "The second class book is designed for the use of schools, particularly as a reading book for the second, or lower classes."--preface, page [3].

Paragraphs numbered. Includes questions for study.

Cover imprint varies: "Worcester: published by Dorr & Howland. Boston: Carter, Hendee & Babcock. 1831." Copy in hand bears inscription dated 1830.

"Stereotype edition."--upper cover.

Copyright Sept. 21st, 1825, by A.T. Lowe, M.D. Preface dated Ashburnham, Mass. 1826.

One illustration appears to be the same as that signed by Abel Bowen in other issues. Letterpress underneath says "Page 343.--A Hottentot village" rather than "Page 143" as earlier issues have it.

Includes publisher's advertisement, lower cover.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.