title: Annotated McGuffey: Selections from the McGuffey Eclectic Readers, 1836-1920
author:  William Holmes McGuffey 
description: The Annotated McGuffey presents a rich sampling of more than eight decades of this famous series, with representative lessons carefully reproduced in facsimile.
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  **William Holmes McGuffey**
  
  
  
  
  
  was an American professor and university president who is best known for
  writing the McGuffey’s Readers, one of the first and most widely used series
  of textbooks in the United States. It is estimated that at least 125 million
  copies of this Eclectic Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its
  sales in a category with the Bible and Webster’s Dictionary.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  McGuffey was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1800. In 1802 the
  McGuffey family moved further out into the frontier at Tuscarawas County,
  Ohio. He attended and graduated from Pennsylvania’s Washington College, where
  he became an instructor. In 1836, he left Miami to become president of
  Cincinnati College, where he also served as a