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The Rare Books Department welcomes U back to school! Do you have your textbooks ready? How about your reading primers? Primers were a type of textbook that taught students how to read. Initially, they contained "primary" or fundamental religious materials. Reference to primers appears in English...

“There is a power in combined enlightened sentiment and sympathy before which every form of injustice and cruelty must finally go down.” – Harriett Beecher Stowe, 1874 LES MORMONS (SAINTS DES DERNIERS-JOURS) ET LEUR… Thomas Brown Holmes Stenhouse (1825-1882) Lausanne: Imprimerie Larpin et Coendoz, 1854 First edition BX8635 S74 1854 T....