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• The Pennsylvania spelling-book, or Youth's friendly instructor and monitor : on an easy plan, for exciting the attention, and facilitating the instruction of children and others, in spelling and reading; and acquainting them with the essential parts of orthography, pointing, &c. As also, training their minds to early sentiments of piety and virtue. More particularly calculated for the use of parents, guardians, and others, remote from schools; in the private tuition of their children, and illiterate domesticks, &c. Compiled by Anthony Benezet
  by: Benezet, Anthony
  Published: (1782)
• The Youth's instructor in the English tongue: or, The art of spelling improved : Being a more plain, easy and regular method of teaching young children, with a greater variety of very useful collections than any other book of this kind and bigness extant. In three parts. The first, containing monosyllables, expressing the most natural and easy things to the apprehensions of the children; with common words, and Scripture names. The second, being an introduction more particularly for children of an higher class. The third, rules in arithmatick [sic], with forms of bills, bonds, releases, &c. very useful for all persons. The whole being intermix'd with variety of exercises in prose and verse, adapted to the capacities of children. For the use of schools. Collected from Dixon, Bailey, Owen, Strong, and Watts
  Published: (1760)
• The oxford spelling-book : being a complete introduction to English orthography. In a method much more clear and intelligible than any book of this nature, hitherto extant. In four parts. I. Of Letters in General and Particular; of Diphthongs, Triphthongs, &c. II. Of Syllables; Rules for Dividing, &c. III. Of Words in General; Of Words of like Sound, but different in Spelling and Signification; Of Words the same in Spelling, but different in Sound and Signification, &c. IV. Of Sentences; together with Rules for Right Pointing; the most usual Abbreviations, &c. The whole interspersed with easy and familiar rules, Remarks, &c. adapted to the Capacity of every Learner. By Tho. Tuite
  by: Tuite, Thomas
  Published: (1726)
• The new art of spelling : Design'd chiefly for persons of maturity, teaching them how to spell and write words by the sound thereof, and to sound and read words by the sight thereof, Rightly, Neatly, and Fashionably. I. It will Instruct any Person, that can Read and Write, to Spell and Write most Languages, that he can Speak, and uses to Read, in a few Hours, by a General Rule, contain'd in Two or Three Lines, and the Use of a Spelling Alphabet, which may be writ on the Twelfth Part of a Sheet of Paper, to carry about them. II. Short and Easie Directions, whereby any One may be Taught to Spell tolerably well in a few Days, and in a many a Year's time be perfected in the Art of True Spelling. III. A Child, or any Person, who can't Read or Write, may, by the help of this Book, learn to Spell and Write perfectly in a small Time. IV. Rules for Foreigners, by which they may Sweeten their Language; and Directions how to Invent an Universal One. Applied to the English Tongue. By J. Jones, M.D
  by: Jones, John
  Published: (1704)
• A new English and Portuguese spelling-book. ... By J.C. teacher and translator
  by: J. C
  Published: (1747)