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Hardcover, original blue and black paste-down pictorial boards (children with hoop and rabbits on front board, McGuffey's Revised Reading Charts on rear) , brown cloth spine, marbeled edges, 162 pp, nicely illustrated with black and white drawings of Victorian domestic scenes, country life, animals, natural history themes, etc. Good, no dustjacket, as issued. Corners bumped with a bit of cardboard exposed there and along edges of boards, two approximately 1/2 inch chips off paste-down on front board, and a 1/8th to 1/2 inch deep by 3 inch long chip off side edge of rear board, (text unaffected) , some foxing and scuffing. Internally, contemporary previous owner's sgn on first free front endpaper and a 1932 one on second free front endpaper, front and rear hinges cracked, some soil on endpapers, a few stray nicks and chips and bit of foxing, but otherwise tight, clean, relatively crisp and unmarked. School; children's.

Facsimile reprint of the 1885 edition, published in 1930 and promoted by Henry Ford.17 cm; 84 pages. Green printed boards as issued. According to the Henry Ford Archive: McGuffey Readers had a deep and lasting influence on Henry Ford. They were among the earliest objects reflecting the American experience that Henry Ford collected, beginning in the 1910s. Ford bought every copy that he could find—amassing, by the 1930s, a collection of 468 copies of 145 different editions. A strong believer in McGuffey’s educational principles, Ford perpetuated these beliefs by founding the Edison Institute Schools. He even had the readers reprinted so that the children in the schools could use them.