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

Samuel Kneeland was Jonathan Edwards’ publisher and Edwards himself exerted a significant influence on what Kneeland and Fowle published during the 1740’s

and we have not even looked through a full single year of those

First was the minimization of public expenditure on the premise that the economy and society were best helped by allowing people to spend as they saw fit

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