THE NEW LONDON SPELLING BOOK BY CHARLES VYSE 1807 COEVAL LEATHER BINDING

[VYSE, CHARLES]. The New London Spelling-Book, or, The Young Gentlemen & Ladies' Guide to the English Tongue; Containing Such a Variety of Really Useful Matter, as to Enable Teachers to Instruct Their Scholars to Spell and Read the English Language With Propriety, Without the Assistance of any Other Book. In Which Great Care has Been Taken to Collect What may Teach Youth Their Duty and Behaviour Towards God and Man, and to Avoid the Numerous Temptations of Life, and of Their own Ungovernable Passions. London: Printed for G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, J. Walker, and G. Robinson, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-row; Scatcherd and Letterman, Ave-Maria-lane; W. J. and J. Richardson, Royal Exchange; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry; and Lackington, Allen, and Co., Finsbury-Square, 1807.

A new edition, with improvements, and additions. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Duodecimo (175 x 100 x 15 mm). Pp. 156. Signatures: A-F¹² G⁶. Initial and terminal blanks present. English text. Bound in contemporary full calf with smooth spine. Illustrations include an engraved portrait of the author and two-page engraved alphabet in which most letters are accompanied by a picture of a native of a different country. The frontispiece and alphabet included in the pagination. Hamilton & Co. printer -- foot of title page verso. Advertisement on tile-page verso is dated 1807. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete. The original binding very well-preserved, with the hinges intact and some light rubbing to spine ends. Interior largely clean with some light consistent browning. Contemporary previous owner signature neatly inked to front endpaper. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition.

Notes: First edition published in 1776, this book went through many editions, but copies of some of these editions are not only scarce, but seem not to have survived in many copies, if any at all.