A manual of useful studies: for the instruction of young persons of both sexes, in families and schools

by Noah Webster

$3,200 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New Haven: S. Babcock, 1839. First edition, small 8vo, pp. viii, 9 -248; full contemporary sheep rebacked; good, sound copy, with an important presentation, To Professor Silliman with the author's regards. A tear through the presentation has been skillfully mended and as the inscription is written in red pencil it is a bit faint. With Silliman's bookplate on the front pastedown, and the subsequent bookplate of Henry McIntosh. In a quarter brown morocco

• Binding: Leather

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