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Variously a teacher, clergyman and town mayor, William Fordyce Mavor (1758-1837) wrote prolifically on a range of literary, historical and educational topics. This work, first published in 1801 and reissued here in a corrected and improved edition of 1843, is Mavor's most famous. Intended to 'sow the seeds of useful learning', it is both a reading primer and a compendium of general knowledge. Beginning with the alphabet, with each letter illustrated by the delightful wood engravings of Thomas Bewick, the book presents vocabulary of increasing complexity together with simple and amusing stories for reading practice, as well as guidance on spelling and grammar. General knowledge is addressed through sections on such topics as weights and measures, geography, key dates in history, and the solar system. It ran to 500 editions, had sold more than 2 million copies by 1823, and was translated into Hindi and French.

Spellers --- Children's stories. --- Conduct of life --- Children --- Primers (Prayer books) --- Alphabet books --- Readers (Primary) --- Primary readers --- Primers --- Prayer books --- Ethics, Practical --- Morals --- Personal conduct --- Ethics --- Philosophical counseling --- Children's fiction --- Juvenile fiction --- Juvenile stories --- Children's literature --- Fiction --- Storytelling --- Books, Spelling --- English language --- Spelling books --- Orthography and spelling --- Orthography and spelling. --- Spelling --- Germanic languages

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A singer and poet as well as a farmer, Thomas Tusser first produced his verse manual on farming in the mid-sixteenth century. Since then, it has gone through more than a dozen editions. This 1812 version is a collation of three of the poem's early editions. Editor William Mavor provides a biographical sketch of Tusser, modernises the work's orthography and punctuation, and includes page-by-page annotations on subject matter and difficult points of language. The work divides into two: the first half, structured around the farming calendar, deals with the cultivation of open and enclosed land, while the second contains 'points of huswifery', arranged loosely around the working day. Tusser writes from the perspective of a tenant farmer, notably placing emphasis on the often overlooked benefits of land enclosure as well as on the role of women in farm labour.

Agriculture --- Home economics --- English language --- Terms and phrases --- Provincialisms --- Rhyme --- Germanic languages

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