📚 Spellers

Books with spellers on their catalogue record, first published between 1740 and 1997, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject spellers in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,972 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The English Tongue	Thomas Dilworth	1740	198
	Universal spelling-book	Daniel Fenning	1756	73
	Grammatical institute of the English language. Part 1	Noah Webster	1788	65
	Grammatical institute of the English language. Part 3	Noah Webster	1787	50
	The only sure guide to the English tongue: or, New pronouncing spelling book	William Perry	1785	49
	Nelson Spelling	John Jackman	1997	41
	The only sure guide to the English tongue, or, New pronouncing spelling book	William Perry	1788	30
	The Columbian spelling-book	Benjamin Heaton	1794	30
	The School reader	Sanders, Charles W.	1840	26
	The Canadian speller	Frank M. Quance	1936	22
	New, American spelling-book, improved	John Peirce	1795	19
	The juvenile spelling-book	Albert Picket	1808	18
	The juvenile spelling-book	Albert Picket	1808	18
	An introduction to spelling and reading	Abner Alden	1797	15
	The new London spelling book, or, The young gentlemen and ladies' guide to the English tongue	Charles Vyse	1781	13
	The national spelling-book, and pronouncing tutor	B. D. Emerson	1828	13
	The scholar's spelling assistant	Carpenter, Thomas.	1831	13
	My spelling	Gerald A. Yoakam	1951	13
	Scott Foresman Spelling	Linda Ward Beech	1988	13
	The pupils own vocabulary speller	Arthur I. Gates	1947	12
	The New Spell-well	C.J. Ridout	1989	12
	The scholar's spelling assistant..	Thomas Carpenter	1800	11
	The New-England spelling-book	John Fiske	1803	11
	New-world speller	Julia Helen Wohlfarth	1908	11
	The Columbian orthographer, or, First book for children	James Pike	1806	10
	The pronouncing spelling book	J. A. Cummings	1819	10
	The common school speller	William Bentley Fowle	1844	10
	The spelling-book	William D. Swan	1849	10
	The complete spelling book	Daniel Leach	1856	10
	Dictation day by day	Kate Van Wagenen	1912	10

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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