Parker, R. G. Progressive Exercises in English Composition. Boston: Robert S. Davis, 1849. New Stereotype Edition, Enlarged and Improved, from the Fifty-fifth Edition. [9599]
Black leather spine with green printed paper boards, 7 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches, 143 (1) pages, tight, some foxing. Very good. Hardcover.
First published in 1832, the popularity and usefulness of this textbook saw it through many printings by 1849. Here it is revised and enlarged. It contains 48 lessons.
"The great popularity of this work has given it an introduction into almost every Academy and higher Seminary throughout the United States, England, and the British Provinces; and its usefulness, as an aid in teaching this important branch of education, has been acknowledged by hundreds of eminent teachers who have used it." - final page.