1833 NOAH WEBSTER. A Dictionary for Primary Schools. First Edition of Important Publication. Jonathan Edwards Printed by Oliver Steele and

Printed by Oliver Steele and Co

Good solid copy of a rare text/ quarter cloth over paper boards

which poured upon us a destructive fire until we passed over the high ground & descended into a valley – Small parties were then sent back to take off the dead & wounded … While marching up the ascending ground a cannon ball struck the ground a few feet behind me

When his wife died

1833 NOAH WEBSTER. A Dictionary for Primary Schools. First Edition of Important Publication. Jonathan Edwards Printed by Oliver Steele andA very nicely preserved example of the first edition of Noah Webster's dictionary for the young [see Skeel, Bibliography of the Writings of Noah Webster]. This was an attempt at democratizing his larger works to make them available for young learners, but it was also advertised to the uneducated, and those who had less space on the frontier, etc., It also served Webster's efforts at the work of standardizing spelling before variants were picked up in