Hazen, E. The Speller and Definer; or, Class-Book No. 2. Designed to Answer the Purposes of a Spelling Book, and to Supersede the Necessity of the Use of a Dictionary as a Class-Book. New York: Lamport, Blakeman & Law, (1829). One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Revised Edition. [12468]
Leather spine with printed paper boards, scuffed and worn with some loss of paper, chipped at the spine ends, with a short crack at the top of the front joint, 6 x 4 inches. 215 generally clean pp. with some light foxing and a few small ink spots. Fair. Hardcover.
Date taken from the copyright; but an undated later printing.
"The Speller and Definer contains between seven and eight thousand words with their definitions. This vocabulary is certainly large enough to satisfy the strongest advocates for memorizing definitions. The words are classified according to the parts of speech, and according to the number of letters or syllables of which they are composed. This classification and arrangement enable pupils to commit the definitions easily, and to remember them tenaciously." - Preface.
Edward Hazen, American school text author of the early to mid 19th century, of whom very little personal information is known.
