The New England Primer - Issued Prior to 1830 - A Checklist

Description: The New England Primer Issued Prior to 1830 A Biographical Checklist for the More Easy Attaining true knowledge of this book. Embellished with a Hundred Cuts and Now Revised, Greatly Improved and Arranged in Two Alphabets. By Charles F. Heartman -------------------------------------------------------- Printed by Martino, 2005. (originally published in NY, in 1922) ================================ Condition : Hardcover. Good - Seems Unread. A few specs of smoke dotting the book, please see the photographs. But no smell, and clean inside ! (it seems that there was a fire in a warehouse that was a distributor for Martino publications - very often you find copies of Martino books with varying degrees of smoke or water staining.) 190 pages, with many (100?) illustrations of primer covers. ================================ This book is a photographic reprint, done by Martino Publishing. Martino did a number of very high quality reprints by photographing books and printing them pretty much exactly as they were originally. The only drawback is that usually the illustrations are not quite as high of quality as the originals were, as they are copies. This style of reprint give you a nice feel of "originality" that most modern reprints do not give you. In my opinion, if you are going to buy a reprinted title - this style is the way to go. ====================================A very nice checklist / catalog of early (pre-1830) New England Primers for collectors. The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American Colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in 18th century America and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In the 17th century, the schoolbooks in use had been brought over from England. By 1690, Boston publishers were reprinting the English Protestant Tutor under the title of The New England Primer. The Primer included additional material that made it widely popular with colonial schools until it was supplanted by Noah Webster's Blue Back Speller after 1790. The New England Primer was first published between 1687 and 1690 by printer Benjamin Harris, who had come to Boston in 1686 to escape the brief Catholic ascendancy under James II. It was based largely upon The Protestant Tutor, which he had published in England,[1] and was the first reading primer designed for the American Colonies.The selections in the New England Primer varied somewhat over time, although there was standard content for beginning reading instruction. Included were the alphabet, vowels, consonants, double letters, and syllabariums of two letters to six letter syllables. The 90-page work contained religious maxims, woodcuts, alphabetical assistants, acronyms, catechism answers, and moral lessons. It was made with a thin sheet of horn or paper shellacked to a wooden board.The primer remained in print well into the 19th century and was even used until the 20th century. A reported 2 million copies were sold in the 18th century. No copies of editions before 1727 are known to survive; earlier editions are known only from publishers' and booksellers' advertisements. ================================================================ Thanks for Looking !! ---------------------------------------------------------- Postage is free (within Continental US - others at cost) either by media mail or priority depending upon the final sale price of the items(s). I always include delivery confirmation, and will insure more expensive packages at my cost. Check my other auctions for books, documents, and ephemera, plus the occasional other book or curiosity - mostly military / Civil War related. I have recently opened an Ebay Store - "The Civil War Bookstore". Check it out, and please subscribe to my newsletter. I plan to try and do one or two per month, and will be offering occasional discounts just to those who get my newsletter. Again, I Thank you for looking !

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