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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a Variety of Selected and Original Pieces

The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a Variety of Selected and Original Pieces

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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a Variety of Selected and Original Pieces

by Staniford, Daniel

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Boston: West & Richardson, 1814. Tenth Edition. Very good in contemporary sheep over wooden boards, covered in blue paper. There is loss to the blue paper covering, joints cracked but firm, pages browned. The book is housed in a custom chemise and slipcase.. Originally published in 1800, this edition of Staniford's perennial schoolbook is in scarce condition, being largely unmarked and in the original scaleboards.

In Michael V. Belok's 1968 essay "Forming the American Character: Essayists and Schoolbooks" Social Science Vol. 43, No. 1 (Jan. 1968), he uses Staniford's work to characterize the essence of post-revolution education (and which differs in many ways from our present system of education) which emphasizes religion and virtue, from which Staniford selected various Biblical stories but also soliloquies from Shakespeare, passages from Paradise Lost, and Lee's funeral oratory for George Washington. See also Sensabaugh, Milton in Early American Schools, Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 19, No. 4 (Aug., 1956), pp. 376-78.

12mo. viii, 240pp. Shaw & Shoemaker 32845.

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Its publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history—never before had an account of Stalinist repression been openly distributed.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a Variety of Selected and Original Pieces
Author
Staniford, Daniel
Book Condition
Used - Very good in contemporary sheep over wooden boards, covered in blue paper. There is loss to the blue paper covering, joints cra
Quantity Available
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Edition
Tenth Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
West & Richardson
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
1814

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