1833 NOAH WEBSTER. A Dictionary for Primary Schools. First Edition of Important Publication. Jonathan Edwards When his wife died

When his wife died

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A slightly later imprint of the first edition

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1833 NOAH WEBSTER. A Dictionary for Primary Schools. First Edition of Important Publication. Jonathan Edwards When his wife diedA 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