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The Columbian reader : comprising a new and various selection of elegant extracts in prose and poetry, for the use of schools in the United States : to which is prefixed an introduction on the arts of reading and speaking: / by Rodolphus Dickinson, Esq. author of Geographical publications, &c.

Other author/creatorDickinson, Rodolphus, 1787-1863, compiler.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Boston] : Published by R.P. & C. Williams, Boston, and Ezekiel Goodale, Hallowell.--For sale by them at their respective book-stores, and by most of the book-sellers in New-England. E. Goodale, printer, 1815.
DescriptionXXXVIII, 1 unnumbered page, 40-204 pages ; 17 cm
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 34573. ^A575643
General notePreface, p. [III], dated at Boston, October 15, 1815.
General noteCopyright May 22, 1815 by R.P. & C. Williams.
General noteError in paging: p. XVII misnumbered XVI.
General note"Introduction. General observations on the arts of reading and speaking."--p. [IX]-XXXVIII.
General noteIncludes biographical sketches of American and British statesmen, p. 109-165.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 34573
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 34573).
Genre/formJuvenile literature 1815.
Genre/formReaders.
Genre/formPoems 1815.

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