The Pennsylvania spelling-book, or Youth's friendly instructor and monitor : on an easy plan, for exciting the attention, and facilitating the instruction of children and others, in spelling and reading; and acquainting them with the essential parts of orthography, pointing, &c. As also, training their minds to early sentiments of piety and virtue. More particularly calculated for the use of parents, guardians and others, remote from schools; in the private tuition of their children, and illiterate domesticks, &c. Compiled by Anthony Benezet.
| Author/creator |
Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784 |
| Other author/creator | Crukshank, Joseph, 1746?-1836, printer. |
| Other author/creator | Mercantile Library of Philadelphia, former owner. |
| Other author/creator | James J. Colt Foundation, donor. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Edition | The second edition, improved and enlarged. |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Crukshank in Market Street, between Second and Third-Streets, MDCCLXXIX. [1779] |
| Description | 168 pages ; 12⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subject(s) |
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| General note | Edition statement transposed; precedes "Compiled by Anthony Benezet." on title page. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Library of Congress. |
| References | Evans, 16204 |
| References | Alston, IV.730 |
| References | Smith, J. Friends' books, 1.243 |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, W18697. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Genre/form | Juvenile literature 1779. |
| Genre/form | Spellers. |
| Genre/form | Readers. |
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