Shelfmark
Ic5.3.02
Title
The academic reader. Containing miscellanies prose and verse, selected from the most elegant writers in the English language. Intended to assist in acquiring the happy talent of graceful reading; to kindle in the breast a noble ambition to rival illustrious characters, to promote generous sentiments, and to awaken a sensibility of whatever is most amiable in life. By H. Ward, school-master in Whitehaven.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Whitehaven] : Printed by Alexander Coutts, for the author., 1789.
Physical description
xxiv, 228 p. ; 12⁰
Note
Alexander Coutts is known to have been active in Whitehaven between ca. 1776 and 1795
Note
Advertisement for H. Ward's school, Whitehaven, on a2.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T224159
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College Library.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Dan[ie]l Stalker, i.e. Daniel Stalker.
Provenance
Ms. name inscription on front flyleaf: "[__] Sharpe".
Binding
18th century brown ?sheepskin binding; smooth spine; spine title.
Subject
Readers Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England Whitehaven.
Identifier
B39099