Book - The New England Primer
The New England Primer Improved for the more easy attaining the true reading of English. To which is added the Assembly of Divines, and Mr. Cotton's Catechism.
circa 1849
The New England Primer Improved for the more easy attaining the true reading of English. To which is added the Assembly of Divines, and Mr. Cotton's Catechism. Boston: Printed by Edward Draper, at his Printing-Office, in Newbury-Street, and Sold by John Boyle in Marlborough-Street. 1777 [i.e. c1849].
24mo (110 x 78 mm), approx. 50 pp. with woodcut illustrations. Contemporary ink gift inscription to last free endpaper recto. Bound in original boards, spine later reinforced with 20th-cent. brown cloth tape. MHS bookplate to front pastedown with 20th-cent. ink inscription: "Gift of Mrs. Irene Griswold Cr[?]"
A well-preserved circa 1849 reprint of one of a 1777 primer for young children, including catechism. This copy is special because of an early ink gift inscription on the final leaf of the book: "Mabel Scranton a present to Mary Day of a little Book".
24mo (110 x 78 mm), approx. 50 pp. with woodcut illustrations. Contemporary ink gift inscription to last free endpaper recto. Bound in original boards, spine later reinforced with 20th-cent. brown cloth tape. MHS bookplate to front pastedown with 20th-cent. ink inscription: "Gift of Mrs. Irene Griswold Cr[?]"
A well-preserved circa 1849 reprint of one of a 1777 primer for young children, including catechism. This copy is special because of an early ink gift inscription on the final leaf of the book: "Mabel Scranton a present to Mary Day of a little Book".
B2021.65