The little reader's assistant
Subtitle: ... all adapted to the capacities of children
By: by Noah Webster, Jun. ...
Contributors: Spaulding, Myra L., former owner.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed by Elisha Babcock
Published: 1791
Place of publication: Hartford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Readers (Primary) -- Early works to 1800.; English language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Gift of Myra L. Spaulding; ownership signature of Joseph Rogers Holmes.
Evans 23967
Skeel, E.E.F.  Webster, 530
"The rudiments of English grammar" (in 16mo) has a separate t.p. with imprint date 1790, and includes in its paging pts. III (p. [54]-69) and IV (p. 69-77).
"The contents are the same as the first edition.  The earlier copies follow its pagination except that pp. [1]-13 of the "Farmer's catechizm" are renumbered [129]-141, leaving a gap between pages 80 and [129].  In later copies the pagination is redone in one continuous series." Cf. E.E.F. Skeel, Webster, p. 193.
Signatures: [A]⁸ B-C⁸; [A]⁸ B-E⁸; chi⁸(-chi8).
"On a reform of spelling": p. [78]-80.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.): containing I. A number of stories, mostly taken from the history of America, and adorned with cuts; title: II. Rudiments of English grammar; title: III. A federal catechism, being a short and easy explanation of the Constitution of the United States; title: IV. General principles of government and commerce; title: V. The farmer's catechizm, containing plain rules of husbandry.