The Philadelphia Vocabulary, English and Latin” Put into a New Method proper to acquaint the Learner with Things as well as pure Latin Words. Adorned with twenty-six pictures. For the Use of Schools.
Philadelphia: Carey and Co, 1787. Item #570 12mo. 165 x 100 mm., [ 6 ½ x 4 inches]. viii, 123 pp. Contemporary brown calf, joints cracked and reinforced with expert tissue repair; paper stock brown with age, three leaves with expert repair to tears, edges a bit fragile, yet a sound and attractive copy. Ownership inscription of Joseph Mathew Liber. `“First American edition of this popular textbook. . . The present edition is copied from the English version, first published in London about 1710, with the title The London Vocabulary.” “The woodcuts on the title-page depicts Philadelphia on the left-hand side and London on the right. In the text there are 25 very crude woodcuts. First American edition of this popular textbook.” Evans, American Bibliography 20398. Sabin , Dictionary of Books Relating to America, 28690 “school book with poor woodcuts”. Rosenbach, Early American Children’s Books, 177. Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers, 116. (570)
Price: $650.00