American Spelling Book PDF

American Spelling Book "Noah Webster"
Applewood Books (1999-09-01) | ISBN 1557094691 | 198 Pages | PDF | 2 Mb

Considered to be the third-best selling book of all time in America. With its distinctive blue cover, it earned the nickname "the blue-backed speller" and was used over the span of nearly a century. This is an exact reproduction of the 1824 edition. The American Spelling Book, or first Part of a Grammatical Institute of the English Language, when first published, encountered an opposition, which few new publications have sustained with success. It however maintained its ground, and its reputation has been gradually extended and established, until it has become the principal elementary book in the United States.

In a great part of the northern States, it is the only book of the kind used; it is much used in the middle and southern States; and its annual sales indicate a large and increasing demand.

Its merit is evidenced not only by this general use, but by a remarkable fact, that, in many attempts made to rival it, the compilers have all constructed their works on a similar plan; some of them have most unwarrantably and illegally copied a considerable part of the tables, with little or no alterations; and others have altered them, by additions, mutilations, and subdivisions, numerous and perplexing.
In most instances, this species of injustice has been discountenanced by the citizens of the United States, and the public sentiment has protected the original work, more effectually than the penalties of the law.

The sales of the American Spelling Book, since its first publication, amount to more than Five Million of copies, and they are annually increasing.



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