A new primer. Or, Child's best guide. : Containing, the most familiar words of one syllable, ranged in such order as to avoid the jingle of rhyme, which draws off childrens' attention from the knowledge of the letters to the sound of the words. The method here pursued being found, by experience, to render spelling more easy to the learner, and less troublesome to the teacher than the common one heretofore practiced. : With a variety of reading lessons. / By David Manson, schoolmaster in Belfast.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manson, David, 1726-1792, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42121.

Language:

English

Genre:

Primers (Instructional books) -- 1770.

Juvenile literature -- 1770.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (62 pages, 2 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed by John Dunlap, at the newest printing office, in Market-Street., [1770?]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Half-title: Manson's new primer.

Date of publication suggested by Bristol.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 42121).

Cited in:

Bristol B3212

Shipton and Mooney 42121

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