Notes on the life of Noah Webster. Compiled by Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford. Edited by Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel
Published by privately printed, 1912, New York, 1913
- First Edition
- Used
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
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First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes; presentation copy "from the daughter of Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford [i.e. the editor, Emily E.F. Skeel], Xmas 1913" to [name erased]. A note on the verso of each title reads "Printed by Kathleen Gordon Ford Turle, Rosalie Greenleaf Ford Barr, Grace Kidder Ford Williams, Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Roswell Skeel, Jr." A printer's imprint at the end of each volume shows that the book was printed in Glasgow by Robert Maclehose & Co. The work contains seven first printings of certain Webster materials (mostly extracts, letters and memoranda -- see Skeel 766). With two frontispiece portraits (browned from acidic tissue) and 7 plates; extremities lightly rubbed and with some slight chipping, spines soiled, else a good, sound set in original blue cloth.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Notes on the life of Noah Webster. Compiled by Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford. Edited by Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel
- Author
- [Webster, Noah]
- Publisher
- privately printed, 1912, New York
- Publication year
- 1913
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Americana, Dictionaries, Language
Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
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