McGuffey’s Newly Revised Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts, in Prose and Poetry, with Rules For Reading, and Exercises in Articulation, Defining, Etc.

MCGUFFEY, William H.

Item Number: 141646

Cincinnati: Winthrop B. Smith & Co, 1848.

Rare revised and improved edition of McGuffey’s Eclectic Fourth Reader. Octavo, bound in full contemporary sheep with a morocco spine label lettered in gilt. In good condition. Ownership inscription and letter of provenance tipped in.

The Eclectic Readers (commonly, but informally known as the McGuffey Readers) were a series of graded primers for grade levels 1 through 6. They were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and homeschooling.