The Indian primer or The first book. : By which children may know truely to read the Indian language. : And Milk for babes.

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Mayhew, Experience, 1673-1758, editor.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 2124.

Language:

Algonquian (Other)

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Languages.

Indians of North America.

Algonquian languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Algonquian languages.

Algonquian languages--Grammar.

Congregational churches--Catechisms.

Congregational churches.

Genre:

Grammars.

Catechisms.

Primers (Instructional books) -- 1720.

Juvenile literature -- 1720.

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Controlled vocabularies.

Physical Description:

3 unnumbered pages, 4-84, 4-84 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, ; 14 cm (12mo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Other Title:

Indiane primer asuh Negonneyeuuk.

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed by B. Green., 1720.

Notes:

Added title page: Indiane primer asuh Negonneyeuuk.

Text in an Algonquian dialect and in English on facing pages; facing pages have duplicate numbering.

Differs extensively from the Indian primer of John Eliot. Dialect adaptations probably by Experience Mayhew. Cf. Pilling, J.C. Bibliography of the Algonquian languages, 1891.

Seal of Massachusetts Bay (Reilly 930), p. [1], 1st count, and cut of the ship Royall Charles (Reilly 1124) on last page.

"Spiritual milk for babes ... By John Cotton."--p. 30-46.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 2124).

Cited in:

Evans 2124

Heartman, C.F. Non-New England primers, 90

Contains:

Cotton, John, 1584-1652. Spiritual milk.

OCLC:

55831754