The New Instructor, Being the Second Part of the American Spelling-Book

Quarter calf, 12mo; (2), 3-238, (2) pp. Very Good+ to Near Fine: tight and crisp with occasional light soil; inconsistencies original to binding. Rhoads' second book, intended as an all-in-one scholarly solution to spare parents the expense of separate dictionaries and readers. His books combined spelling, pronunciation, moral and geographical instruction wrapped into one. Many of his prose excerpts appeared in popular anthologies like those produced by fellow Quaker Lindley Murray. Among Rhoad's selections is the abolitionist tale, "Family conversation on the Slavery of the Negroes," in which the parents of English children explain the conditions of enslaved people in the West Indies, to the children's horror and disavowal. American Imprints 4971.