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 scholar's arithmetic, Thorough scholar, &c
Contributors: Thomas, Isaiah, Jun., 1773-1819, publisher; E. Merriam & Co
Edition: Fifth 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: 1808
Place of publication: Worcester, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Notes: Copyright Sept. 27, 1803 by Daniel Adams.

Tentatively dated 1809 by Shaw & Shoemaker. However, the fifth edition was advertised in the Oct. 19, 1808 issue of the Massachusetts spy, Worcester, as "now in the press," and in the issue of Dec. 7, 1808 as "This day published."

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Error in paging: p. 203 misnumbered 103.

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