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The American School Library was a set of books published by Harper & Brothers in 1838 and 1839 on behalf of the American Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The Society was incorporated in the State of New York on May 16, 1837 at the urging of the Reverend Gorham D. Abbott. The American Society, and its Library, were inspired by "A Library of Useful Knowledge", a set of educational pamphlets published in England in the late 1820s by the UK's Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The fifty books in the set included volumes on American, Egyptian and Chinese history, biographies of George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte, the principles of physiology and health, and the novel The Swiss Family Robinson. The set of 50 books was priced twenty dollars, with the cost of provid

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  • The American School Library was a set of books published by Harper & Brothers in 1838 and 1839 on behalf of the American Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The Society was incorporated in the State of New York on May 16, 1837 at the urging of the Reverend Gorham D. Abbott. The American Society, and its Library, were inspired by "A Library of Useful Knowledge", a set of educational pamphlets published in England in the late 1820s by the UK's Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The fifty books in the set included volumes on American, Egyptian and Chinese history, biographies of George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte, the principles of physiology and health, and the novel The Swiss Family Robinson. The set of 50 books was priced twenty dollars, with the cost of providing a set to the nation's fifty thousand school districts set at one million dollars. In 1839, New York State passed a law mandating that every school district in the state would buy a set of American School Library volumes. However, while the Superintendent of Schools agreed to purchase the books from the publisher, he did not acknowledge the Society's role in its distribution, and no remuneration was offered directly to the Society. The Society, which had spent more than $10,000 and only raised $3,000, was looking forward to the New York purchases to cover its debts. Left with no resources, the Society suspended operations. The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History holds the only complete original set of this series complete with its wooden carrying case. (en)
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  • The American School Library was a set of books published by Harper & Brothers in 1838 and 1839 on behalf of the American Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The Society was incorporated in the State of New York on May 16, 1837 at the urging of the Reverend Gorham D. Abbott. The American Society, and its Library, were inspired by "A Library of Useful Knowledge", a set of educational pamphlets published in England in the late 1820s by the UK's Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The fifty books in the set included volumes on American, Egyptian and Chinese history, biographies of George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte, the principles of physiology and health, and the novel The Swiss Family Robinson. The set of 50 books was priced twenty dollars, with the cost of provid (en)
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