BRB0148

Title

Subject

Description

Lindley Murray's English Reader was an immensely successful textbook in nineteenth-century grammar schools in the United States. In this copy of the author's Sequel to the English Reader, first published in 1801, an entire reading by the Scottish historian William Robertson (1721–1793) entitled the "Character of Martin Luther" was deleted by means of stamping with heavily inked blocks due to the Bishop of New York's public lecture against the passage.

Creator

Murray, Lindley, 1745–1826.

Source

BRB0148. Lindley Murray (1745–1826). Sequel to the English Reader. New York: John S. Taylor, 1839.

Relation

Expurgations

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

English

Type

Censored textbook

Collection

"Heresy and Error": The Ecclesiastical Censorship of Books, 1400–1800

Citation

Murray, Lindley, 1745–1826., “BRB0148,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed November 7, 2025, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1895.