McGuffey's New Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey interior page, black text on cream colored paper

McGuffey's New Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey interior page, black text on cream colored paper

Photographic scan of interior of McGuffey's New Fourth Eclectic Reader, William Holmes McGuffey, Cincinnati: Van Antwerp, Bragg, and Co, 1879. Scan of page 24. Page is mottled cream paper with black letterpress serif type. The words “Eclectic Series” is centered at the top of the page in italicized capitalized type, adjacent to the page number. The page text is centered in the top half of the page, with two columns of short sentences followed by a short standard paragraph. The short sentences in the columns are partially printed in a wave-like fashion to help young readers practice rising and falling inflections. Page is set on a dark background.

1879

William Holmes McGuffey

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