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.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Loring, James, 1770-1850, publisher.

Standardized Title:

New England primer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian life--Juvenile literature.

Christian life.

Children--Conduct of life--Juvenile literature.

Children.

Conduct of life--Juvenile literature.

Conduct of life.

Catechisms--Juvenile literature.

Catechisms.

Readers (Primary).

Natural history--Juvenile literature.

Natural history.

Animals--Juvenile literature.

Animals.

Readers (Elementary).

Children--Conduct of life.

Genre:

Juvenile works.

Readers.

Catechisms.

Penn Provenance:

Stallybrass, Peter (donor) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

[64] pages : illustrations ; 10 cm (16mo)

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 and 1826]

Contents:

The capital letters ; The small letters ; Double letters ; Italic letters ; Italic double letters ; Vowels ; Consonants ; Diphthongs ; Easy syllables for children ; Words of one syllable ; Words of two syllables, accented on the first ; Words of two syllables, accented on the last ; Words of three syllables, accented on the first ; Words of three syllables, accented on the 2d. ; Words of four syllables ; Words of five syllables

[Illustrated alphabet rhymes] ; An alphabet of lessons for youth ; Three choice sentences ; Instructive questions and answers

The burning of Mr. John Rogers

The ten commandments ; The Lord's prayer ; Prayer at lying down ; Agur's prayer ; The infant's grace before and after meat

Remember thy creator in the days of thy youth ; Human frailty ; Uncertainty of life ; Learn these four lines by heart ; A morning hymn ; An evening hymn ; Duty to God and our neighbor ; Verses for little children ; Dr. Watts's Cradle hymn

The shorter catechism, agreed upon by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster

The sum of the ten commandments ; Our Saviour's golden rule.

Notes:

Variant issues noted: issue in hand has 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. Another issue has title page frame design featuring diamonds and flowers. Page [2] has text beginning with the words, "When thou prayest." Page [2] also features a wood engraving of a boy and a girl kneeling in prayer. Page [63] features a wood engraving of a boy and girl kneeling in prayer before seated parents.

Imprint date range from bookseller's description.

Signatures: [A]⁸ B-D⁸ (leaf B1 unsigned).

First and last leaves affixed to boards

Woodcut illustrations.

Type ornament head- and tail-pieces.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy has partially illegible autograph ("[...] S= Hubbard=") at head of title leaf.

Kislak Center copy purchased from Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company and presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Peter Stallybrass.

Kislak Center copy originally bound in quarter leather over blue paper-covered shingle boards. "An early owner has covered the spine and outside of the boards with a piece of polychrome paper that is now so faded that its original colors are not clearly determinable--though the pattern was apparently(?) floral"--Bookseller's description.

Kislak Center copy: "[S]ome of the later paper flaked off especially from spine ... Small area of worming to inside of front board with loss of two words ('blesses them') of caption of the frontispiece, and evidence of a onetime paper adherence to plate; part of image of last leaf (pasted to inside of rear board) abraded or torn off."--Bookseller's description.

Cited in:

Bristol, R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans’ American bibliography, B10406

Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 1244

Heartman, C.F. New England primer issued prior to 1830, 435

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Early American children’s books, 531

Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 35424

Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800, 48521

Contains:

Westminster Assembly (1643-1652). Shorter catechism.

OCLC:

228718874