Murray. The English Reader, or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best Writers...With A Key
Murray. The English Reader, or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best Writers...With A Key
Murray. The English Reader, or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best Writers...With A Key

Murray. The English Reader, or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best Writers...With A Key

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Murray, Lindley; Bartlett, M. R. The English Reader, or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best Writers...With A Key. Cooperstown, [NY]: H. and E. Phinney, 1831. [8735]

Worn leather binding, joints good, tattered leather spine title label, 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches), tight. Lacks the front free end papers, scribbles/stains on the paste-down. 352 pp., counted and complete. Light foxing/stains. Fair . Full leather.

An English school book that was recommended by Abraham Lincoln, "as the best school book ever put in the hands of American youth."

The title continues: Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; to Improve their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcated some of the most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue. To which are prefixed, The Definitions of Inflections & Emphasis, and Rules for Reading Verse, with A Key, exhibiting the Method of Applying those Principles to the Pronunciation of Written Language. The Inflections, as well as Emphasis, are also actually Applied, by Sensible Characters, and Agreeably to the Directions contained in the Key, to the Whole of Mr. Murray's Selections. By M. R. Bartlett.

Lindley Murray (1745-1826), b. Lebanon Co., Pa; d. York, England. He was the son of a New York merchant, of Quaker stock. Murray went to England at the outbreak of the Revolution, and remained there the rest of his life. He wrote eleven schoolbooks and it has been said that some sixteen million copies of his books were printed. "His most popular work was The English Reader, full of selections from the liberal-minded writers of the Scottish Enlightenment, most notable the Rev. Hugh Blair...[It] dominated the American market for readers for over a generation from 1815 into the 1840's," being replaced mainly by the McGuffey Readers.