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

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 a