The New York primer; or, Second book.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870, engraver.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 13240.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Picture books for children.

Animals.

Birds.

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1837.

Primers (Instructional books) -- 1837.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 33 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 14 cm

Other Title:

S. Wood's New-York primer.

Place of Publication:

New York: : Published by Samuel S. & William Wood, no. 261 Pearl-Street., [1837?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

"The favourable reception which the Young child's A, B, C; or First book, and the New-York primer, have met with, induces the publisher to bring forward a gradual succession of books, which for a long time, he has conceived would be proper."--p. [2], first count.

Cover title: S. Wood's New-York primer.

Copyright 1837 by Samuel S. and William Wood. Samuel S. and William Wood published in New York between 1836 and 1861.

"R. & G.S. Wood, printers."--p. [1] of wrapper.

Wood-engraved title vignette signed "A" (i.e., Alexander Anderson). Vignette has caption: Delightful task to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot.

Variant states noted: wrapper illustrations differ.

Last page blank; pasted to printed wrapper.

Shaw & Shoemaker entry 13240 records the imprint as "New York, Samuel Wood, 1807" and lists the NN copy only. The NN copy of the present edition is reproduced in the microform series Early American imprints, second series.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 13240).

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