The Columbian reader, : comprising a new and various selection of elegant extracts in prose and poetry, for the use of schools in the United States : to which is prefixed an introduction on the arts of reading and speaking:
Rodolphus Dickinson (Compiler), Ezekiel Goodale (Publisher), R.P. & C. Williams (Firm) (Publisher)
Print Book, English, 1815
Published by R.P. & C. Williams, Boston, and Ezekiel Goodale, Hallowell.--For sale by them at their respective book-stores, and by most of the book-sellers in New-England. E. Goodale, printer., [Boston], 1815
Readers (Publications)
XXXVIII, [1], 40-204 p. ; 17 cm.
191264603
Preface, p. [III], dated at Boston, October 15, 1815
Copyright May 22, 1815 by R.P. & C. Williams
Error in paging: p. XVII misnumbered XVI
"Introduction. General observations on the arts of reading and speaking."--Page [IX]-XXXVIII
Includes biographical sketches of American and British statesmen, p. 109-165