McGuffy's Eclectic Primer with Pictorial Illustrations (Newly Revised Edition)

William Holmes McGuffey (1800-1873) was an American professor and college president best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, a series of graded primers widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. McGuffey's Newly Revised Pictorial Eclectic Primer is intended as an introduction to McGuffey's Eclectic First Reader. (Facsimile reprint edition, complete with all original illustrations.)