New Guide to the English Tongue in Five Parts

In Five Parts. I. Words both Common and Proper from one to six syllables . II. A Large and useful table of works that are the same in sound . III. A short, but comprehensive Grammar of the English Tongue . IV. An useful Collection of Sentences in prose and verse . V. Forms of Prayer, for Children .

by Thomas Dilworth

Printed by G. K. Harper, Chambersburg, (PA), 1810.

 Sm. 8vo. 156pp. + [ii]. Portrait frontis., several woodcut illustrations.  Tipped in signed letter from H. E. Barker, the noted noted art and book dealer whose specialty was books and pictures related to Abraham Lincoln (Lincolniana) discussing how this was one of the few schoolbooks used by Abraham Lincoln.

Rev. Thomas Dilworth (died 1780) was an English cleric and author of the above widely used schoolbook, both in Great Britain and America.

George Kenton Harper (1778-1858) was an early western Pennsylvania printer.