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Cincinnati: Published by Luman Watson. Looker & Reynolds, Printers / Printed by S.J. Brown at the Emporium Office, for Luman Watson, 1825. Softcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition from the Fourth London edition" of the first title (one of two 1825 issues, the other published in New York), and first American edition of the second title also "From the Fourth London Edition." Original or contemporary wrappers. 84pp., 56pp. Wrappers are encased in a homemade dustwrapper (and the fragility of the dustwrapper is such that we have not removed it) constructed from the April 27, 1827 issue of the Boston *Record and Telegraph* (incidentally predating by two years the first known publisher's dustwrapper). The wrappers beneath appear to be green, and we assume unprinted. Slight foxing to the text, else near fine, the dustwrapper is a little worn at the folds, but still very good or better. Ownership signature of the Rev. William Andrus Alcott with his library number ("Wm. A.…