A spelling dictionary, divided into short lessons, for the easier committing to memory by children and young persons; and calculated to assist youth in comprehending what they read: selected from Johnson's Dictionary, for the use of her pupils. By Susanna Rowson. Second edition.

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Title A spelling dictionary, divided into short lessons, for the easier committing to memory by children and young persons; and calculated to assist youth in comprehending what they read: selected from Johnson's Dictionary, for the use of her pupils. By Susanna Rowson. Second edition.
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Signed Author By Susanna Rowson
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Volumes 1
Pagination 152
Date of Publication 1815
Edition Statement Second edition.
Edition Number 2
Date of First Publication 1807
Imprint Published and for sale by Isaac Adams, No. 7, Exchange-Street, and West and Richardson, No. 75, Cornhill, Boston. A. & J. Shirley, printers.
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Copyright Statement District of Massachusetts—To Wit. Be it remembered, that on the twenty-fifth day of August, in the thirty-second year of the independence of the United States of America, John West, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: A Spelling Dictionary, divided into Short Lessons, for the easier committing to memory by Children and Young Persons; and calculated to assist Youth in comprehending what they read: Selected from Johnson's Dictionary, for the use of her pupils. By Susanna Rowson. In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "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, intitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, intitled, 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." William S. Shaw, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.
Location of Printing Portland US
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Notes AAS Notes: "I frequently wrote short lessons of 10 or 12 words, with the definitions, these the children would study with avidity; and from that circumstance I formed the resolution of printing the selection of spelling lessons, which I now offer to the public ..."--Preface, p. [3], first count.
"Advertisement to the second edition; by the compiler."--p. [4], first count, signed: S. Rowson. Hollis-Street, Boston, 1815.
Copyright Aug. 25, 1807 by John West.
Text printed in two columns.
"A concise account of the heathen deities, and other fabulous persons; with the heroes and heroines of antiquity."--p. [153]-156.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature,
Skillin, G.B. Bibliography of Maine imprints 1785-1820,
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American Antiquarian Society copy lacks last leaf (p. 155-156). Cover mutilated. Inscribed: Caroline W. Groves.
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Rowson, Susanna, Johnson, Samuel. A spelling dictionary, divided into short lessons, for the easier committing to memory by children and young persons; and calculated to assist youth in comprehending what they read: selected from Johnson's Dictionary, for the use of her pupils. By Susanna Rowson. Second edition.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 19445, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/19445. Accessed 2024-11-21. 

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