The American first class book; or, Exercises in reading and recitation
Subtitle: selected principally from modern authors of Great Britain and America; and designed for the use of the highest class in publick and private schools
By: By John Pierpont, minister of Hollis-Street Church, Boston: author of Airs of Palestine, &c
Contributors: Fowle, William Bentley, 1795-1865; T.P. & J.S. Fowle (Firm); T. Harrington Carter & Co
Publisher: Published by T.P. & J.S. Fowle, no. 45, Cornhill. Stereotyped by T.H. Carter & Co.
Published: 1824
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: English literature; Literary collections; American literature
Notes: Copyright June 23rd, 1823 by William B. Fowle.

"Publisher's advertisement. But six thousand copies of this work had been printed when the stereotyped plates, which had been brought to an unusual degree of correctness, were destroyed by fire. The proprietor has been at the trouble and expense of re-stereotyping the whole, and, believing that the new plates are in no respect inferiour to the former, he confidently offers the book ... October, 1824."--verso of title page.

"At a meeting of the School Committee, held July 18th, 1823, it was--ordered, that The American first class book be hereafter used in the publick reading schools instead of Scott's Lessons. Attest, Wm. Wells, Secretary."--Extract from the records of the School Committee of Boston, verso of title page.

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