1833 NOAH WEBSTER. A Dictionary for Primary Schools. First Edition of Important Publication. Jonathan Edwards Then Graham took a Collection

Then Graham took a Collection for Support of the Professor in Theology in Hillsdale

and we have not even looked through a full single year of those

Printed by Oliver Steele and Co

circa 1870

Philip Melanchthon

1833 NOAH WEBSTER. A Dictionary for Primary Schools. First Edition of Important Publication. Jonathan Edwards Then Graham took a CollectionA 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