Tillegnadt: Swenska Mödrar, Barn och ABC-lärare. Götheborg... Sam. Norberg, 1829. 84, [2], pages. Illustrated with wood-engraving of a mother teaching her child on the title and small wood-engravings within the text. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards. 19.4 x 15.8 cm. Touch of worming to rear inner joint; else a very good copy of the only edition of this important Swedish primer. A pioneer of literacy among Sweden's lower classes, the wealthy tallow and wax merchant created his own scheme for teaching the alphabet and basic reading skills through the marriage of phonetics and images. Melin tackles vowels, then consonants, using pictures in the text and accents on the letters indicating the correct sounds. The final leaf is a testimonial added to a few copies of the book, which tells of two six-year-old boys who learned to read in forty-two hours using the Forsok.