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Försök till en ny underwisnings-metod, som åsyftar barnens lättare fattning och begrepp wid första innanläsningen af swenska språket,... Utgifwet till förmån för staden Götheborgs, genom åtskilliga tillfälligheter, stora antal fattiga af blygsamma classen.

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…
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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.
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IMPROVED READING MADE EASY being An Easy and Expeditious method of initiating Children into the Knowledge of the English Language. In Four Parts. Containing: I. A new Enticing Picture Alphabet…. IV. A short, tho' correct History of Ireland… Stereotype edition.

Limerick: Printed and sold at George M. Goggins, No date [between 1830-1837]. 72 pages, including pastedown frontispiece and last page of text. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece of His Majesty, William the Fourth; an alphabet illustrated with woodcuts, and fourteen other woodcuts plus a tailpiece. Original orange semi-stiff boards. 14.7 x 9.1 cm. Covers worn and marked; spine frail; some neat pen-marking in the margins of a few pages; else a very good copy of a scarce primer. No copy of this precise title found on WorldCat, though a similar title, published in Dublin by J. Egan of unspecified date, is listed as being held by the University of Iowa Libraries.
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WARNE'S LARGE TYPE PRIMER. With Coloured Pictures.

London: Frederick Warne and Co, No date [circa 1915]. [48] pages. Coloured frontispiece of boy cricketers, and one other coloured plate. Original blue and black decorative cloth. Octavo. From the publisher's archive with their stamp on front free endpaper. A fine copy.
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