The New-York reader No. 3: being, selections in prose and poetry, from the best writers, designed for the use of schools, and calculated to assist the scholar in acquiring the art of reading, and at the same time to fix his principles, and inspire him with a love of virtue.

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Title The New-York reader No. 3: being, selections in prose and poetry, from the best writers, designed for the use of schools, and calculated to assist the scholar in acquiring the art of reading, and at the same time to fix his principles, and inspire him with a love of virtue.
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Volumes 1
Pagination 238
Date of Publication 1817
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Imprint Printed and sold by Samuel Wood & Sons, no. 357, Pearl-Street.
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Copyright Statement Southern District of New-York, ss. Be It Remembered, That on the fourteenth day of October, in the fortieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Samuel Wood and Sons, of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim, as proprietors, in the words and figures following, to wit: "The New-York Reader, No. 3: being selections in prose and poetry, from the best writers; designed for the use of schools, and calculated to assist the scholar in acquiring the art of reading, and at the same time to fix his principles, and inspire him with a love of virtue." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an Act, entitled, "an Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." Theron Rudd, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.
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Notes AAS Notes:
"Nearly all of the 'Lessons for the use of Ackworth school' are embodied in this work, comprising the matter from page 23 to 164. These are selections from Sturm, Barbauld, and others. ..."--Preface, p. [iii].
Copyright Oct. 14, 1815 by Samuel Wood & Sons.
A list of geometric shapes, frontispiece, p. [2].
"Master and slave."--p. 194-197.
"Fernando Cortez and William Penn."--p. 200-205.
Poems, p. 206-238.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
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American Antiquarian Society copy p. 102 has what appears to be a white paint spot on the text. Copy has label inscribed "Juvenile Library Compy. no. 40." Copy also has an inscribed list of female names (members of the library?) on the back endpapers. Inscribed: Miss Caroline P. Lord, Juvenile Seminary, New London.
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Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, Sturm, Christoph Christian. The New-York reader No. 3: being, selections in prose and poetry, from the best writers, designed for the use of schools, and calculated to assist the scholar in acquiring the art of reading, and at the same time to fix his principles, and inspire him with a love of virtue.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 16136, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/16136. Accessed 2024-12-22. 

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