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USEFUL KNOWLEDGE
Webster, Noah. Elements of useful knowledge. Volume I. Containing a historical and geographical account of the United States; for the use of schools. Hartford: Pr. by Hudson and Goodwin, 1812. 12mo. [4] ff., 208 pp.
Provenance: From the collection of the Merriam publishing firm, with its rubber-stamps on the front pastedown and verso of the title-page. The Merriam Company, was, of course, closely associated with Webster; hence, the Merriam-Webster dictionaries.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 27500. Publisher's quarter sheep with paper sides over wooden “shingle” boards. Expectable wear. Usual age-toning.
WILLIAMS COLLEGEWells, David Ames; & Samuel Henry Davis. Sketches of Williams College. Williamstown, MA: H.S. Taylor, 1847. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 99, [1] pp.
• Recent paper wrappers. Reverse of the title-page and one other page with institutional stamps; a few pages with pencilled marginalia, otherwise clean.
Early Utica Sunday School Magazine Western Sunday School Union, pub. Juvenile magazine ... for the year 1827. Utica, NY: Western Sunday School Union, 1827. 16mo. [4], 192 pp. (69/70, 75/76, 79/80, 95–98, 111–28 lacking).
Click the interior images for enlargements. Provenance: Front pastedown with partially lost “Sabbath School” bookplate, this having been vol. 289 in the library; back pastedown with early inked ownership inscription of “Miss Sally Lewis, Madison.”
• Not in Shoemaker. Contemporary quarter black straight-grain roan in imitation of morocco with speckled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding rubbed and abraded, paper lost at corners, spine title dimmed. Bookplate and ownership note as above. Pages age-toned and stained, with edges ragged/tattered, occasionally affecting first or last letters; two leaves each with long tear from outer margin; one leaf with lower outer portion torn away, affecting several lines. Lacking pp. 69/70, 75/76, 79/80, 95–98, 111–28. 
Hard-used and incomplete, but rarely seen in any state. (24492)
The
Catechism, 1857Westminster Assembly. The Assembly's shorter
catechism. New York: S.W. Benedict, 1857. 48mo (11.1 cm, 4.4"). 31 pp. 
• In original printed wrappers. Covers lightly stained. Overall very good. (4850)
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“Exercises” —
Elocution &
Declamation
Wilson, Floyd B. Wilson's book of recitations and dialogues, with instructions in elocution and declamation. Containing a choice selection of poetical and prose recitations. Designed as a reading book for classes.... New York: Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation[,] successor to Dick & Fitzgerald, n.d. [ca. 1910?]. 12mo. 186 pp., [2 (ads)] ff.
"instructor in elocution and mathematics, Central High School, Cleveland, Ohio," and his book was to serve not only as a general reader but as "an assistant to teachers and students in preparing exhibitions." Standard authors and fine set pieces are here in plenty, and at the back is an appendix offering advice on enunciation, pitch, emphasis, and "the rhetorical pause."
• Pale blue wrappers delicately lettered and embellished on front cover all over, in brown — quite pretty. Excellent condition.
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Nearly
600
Pages of Small Print —
Read ThisWoodhouselee, Alexander Fraser Tytler, lord. Elements of general history, ancient and modern..., with a continuation, terminating at the demise of King George III., 1820. By Rev. Edward Nares...to which are added, a succinct history of the United States; with additions and alterations by an American gentleman...adapted for the use of schools and academies, by an experienced teacher. Concord, N.H.: Pr. by Isaac Hill (stereotyped by T.H. Carter & Co., Boston), 1825. 8vo. 527, 44 pp.• Shoemaker 23367. Publisher's "treed" and mottled sheep, abraded; some signatures loosening. Foxing and with staining; old water-damage, front and rear. Complete, usable, and as meaty as it ever was.
FIRST Music Book Printed
Typographically in AMERICA The Worcester collection of shared harmony. Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1786. Long 8vo (14.2 cm, 5.6"). [4], 104 pp. (pp. 93/94 bound in after 95/96).
Click any image where the hand appears on “Introduction
to the Grounds of Music: Or, Rules for Learners.”
Pioneering printer, publisher, and historian Isaiah Thomas was most likely the
compiler, but “no ostensible editor appears until the sixth edition, published
in 1797, when Oliver Holden was engaged by Thomas to supervise that edition”
(Evans).
This is
the first music book printed typographically in America: All previous music books had been engraved.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription reading “Warren Burr's Booke 1786.”
Uncommon: Only seven U.S. institutions report holdings of this first edition.
At top of the title-page: “Laus Deo!”
• Evans 19752; Amer. Sacred Music 533; Sabin 95414c (under “Also”); ESTC W15184. Contemporary limp sheep, covers framed in blind double fillets; ownership stamps effaced on both covers, spine and edges rubbed, foot of spine with paper shelving label. Front pastedown partially removed, with bookplate remnants beneath; back free endpaper lacking and front one with inscription as above; title-page with institutional rubber-stamp in lower margin; back pastedown rubber-stamped. Pages age-toned and foxed. Sewing loosening, text block pulling away from spine, leaves starting to separate. Occasional tiny, unobtrusive early inked “rec'd.” marks, witha very few measures of music corrected or added to in an early hand. (24016)
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