McGuffey's New Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey interior page, black text on cream colored paper and two small children sitting and reading

McGuffey's New Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey interior page, black text on cream colored paper and two small children sitting and reading

Photographic scan of interior of McGuffey's New Fourth Eclectic Reader, William Holmes McGuffey, Cincinnati: Van Antwerp, Bragg, and Co, 1879. Page is mottled cream paper with black letterpress serif type. The words “Fourth Reader” are centered in capitalized italicized type at the top of the page, adjacent to the page number. The top half of the page features an illustration of a boy and his younger sister sitting at a hearth, while the bottom half features a short stanza narrating the illustration, a section break, a new section title in all capitals, and a standard format paragraph. Page set on black background.

1879

William Holmes McGuffey

McGuffey, William Holmes. McGuffey’s New Fourth Eclectic Reader. Cincinnati, 1879.