(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT) Fox George Instructions for Right S

Sale 2380 - Lot 122

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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Fox, George. Instructions for Right Spelling, and Plain Directions for Reading and Writing True English. 95 pages. 12mo, contemporary sheep, worn; lacking free endpapers, pages 2 through 11 formerly used as a scrapbook with paste discoloration and clipping remnants, minor worming; early owner's signature on final blank page, early library gift inscription on title page, embossed private library stamps and inked number stamps on title and page 49. Newport, RI: Solomon Southwick, 1769

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A primer written by the Quaker founder George Fox in 1673. This is the fourth of four colonial American editions. Alden, Rhode Island 412; Evans 11258; Rosenbach, Children's Books 62. We trace no copies of any American editions at auction since 1927. Provenance: early owner Sarah Rodman; gift of Charity Rodman Rotch (1767-1824) to the Kendal Social Library of Ohio circa 1811; private library of Henry J. Grund.