McGuffey's newly revised eclectic second reader : containing progressive lessons in reading and spelling. Revised and improved.
McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Second Reader is a graded school textbook edited by William Holmes McGuffey and published in Cincinnati in 1848 by Winthrop B. Smith & Co. for children learning to read and spell. Its small woodcut illustrations show a boy meeting a gentleman on a garden path, a boy resting by a stream under trees, an old man with a dog talking to a boy, and a boy standing by a pasture; a designer might take from them the plain, narrative woodcut style of mid-nineteenth-century schoolbook scenes.
