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The New-England primer, improved, or, An easy and pleasant guide to the art of reading : to which is added, the Assembly's Catechism ; adorned with cuts.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PE1119.A1 N5 1815
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Standardized Title:
- New England primer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Conduct of life--Juvenile literature.
- Children.
- Conduct of life--Juvenile literature.
- Conduct of life.
- Christian life--Juvenile literature.
- Christian life.
- Children's poetry.
- Children--Conduct of life.
- Genre:
- Children's poetry
- Juvenile works.
- Poetry.
- Primers (Instructional books)
- Alphabet rhymes.
- Catechisms.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lombard[?], Margaret A. (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- [64] pages : illustrations ; 10 cm
- Other Title:
- New England primer improved
- Easy and pleasant guide to the art of reading
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Printed by James Loring : Sold wholesale and retail at his bookstore, no. 2, Cornhill, [between 1815-1830]
- Notes:
- "At least eight different issues of this Primer seem to be known. They show woodcut variations and typographical errors corrected."--Heartman.
- Publication date range from Heartman.
- Without pagination.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy in American scaleboard binding.
- Kislak Center copy imperfect: pages [31]-[32] wanting.
- Kislak Center copy: "In the present printing, the title page frame design featuring straight lines intertwined with a spiral line. Page [2] has a frontispiece of a boy and girl walking through the forest, with a caption beginning with words 'All good boys and girls.' Page [63] features a wood engraving of a man walking with his dog."--Bookseller's description.
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from The Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company.
- Kislak Center copy has early autograph ("Margaret A. Lombard[?]") on page [1].
- Kislak Center copy: binding: "Publisher's 'shingle boards' with leather shelfback and blue paper over the boards. In many recorded copies, the first and last leaves are pasted to the appropriate boards of the binding; they show no signs of ever having been affixed thus here."--Bookseller's description.
- Kislak Center copy: "[F]ront cover almost separate with board split horizontally and also all but separated along that axis, with paper almost entirely gone; back board with paper rubbed and chipped. Gutter between frontispiece and title-page reinforced with cellophane tape long ago; title-page with chip in lower margin, not touching border or text, text leaves each with one minute pin-type wormhole in upper margin and one in the outer ... [T]wo leaves in catechism section with small holes in center each affecting a few letters; final leaf with short tear from lower margin affecting two leaves."--Bookseller's description.
- Cited in:
- Bristol B10406
- Heartman, C.F. The New-England primer, 435
- Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 531
- Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 35424
- Shipton & Mooney 48521
- Contains:
- Westminster Assembly, (1643-1652). Shorter catechism.
- OCLC:
- 34181484
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