The New England Primer Issued Prior to 1830. A Biographical Checklist for the More Easy Attaining the True Knowledge of this Book. Embellished with a Hundred Cuts and Now Revised,Greatly Improved and Arranged in Two Alphabets.

Heartman, Charles F., With Preface, Introduction and Index Compiled by.

ISBN 10: 1578984912 / ISBN 13: 9781578984916

Published by Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, CT., 2005

About this Item

Royla octavo, red cloth with black lettering, frotispiece illustration, 192 pp., b/w illustrations from the books discussed (Plates are on pages not included in the pagination) The original edition was published: New York, the Compiler, 1922 in an edition of 250 numbered copies and 15 copies printed on Hand-Made Paper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New England Primer Issued Prior to 1830. A Biographical Checklist for the More Easy Attaining the True Knowledge of this Book. Embellished with a Hundred Cuts and Now Revised,Greatly Improved and Arranged in Two Alphabets.
• Publisher: Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, CT.
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1578984912
• ISBN 13: 9781578984916
• Binding: Hardbound
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Reprint of the 1922 edition. Hardbound. Cloth. Oversized Octavo. 3 p. l., ix-xxii, 23-190, [2] p. frontispiece, facsimiles. [New York]; 1922. Heartman based his work on Ford's earlier bibliography on the same subject. Ford's bibliography covered Primers only through 1800. Heartman takes the subject through 1830. This new editions cites one hundred and seventy seven primers, locating more than two hundred and ten copies. Heartman provides a brief historical introduction to thesubject. Despite some controversy, Heartman settles on the 1727 New England Primer printed in Boston as the earliest example of its kind. He is certain, however, that many New England primers were printed before this time, but this is the only one of whose existence we can be certain. It was, after all, next to the bible, the basic reading in colonial society, and could be found in the bookshops of most towns and general stores. It was also one of the most extensively advertised books andshows up very frequently in inventory lists. Profusely illustrated. This is the enlarged second edition, citing 362 primers. Besterman 4224.