New England Primer ABC c.1815 rare Boston catechism woodcuts Burning John Rogers
New England Primer ABC c.1815 rare Boston catechism woodcuts Burning John Rogers New England Primer ABC c.1815 rare Boston catechism woodcuts Burning John Rogers New England Primer ABC c.1815 rare Boston catechism woodcuts Burning John Rogers New England Primer ABC c.1815 rare Boston catechism woodcuts Burning John Rogers New England Primer ABC c.1815 rare Boston catechism woodcuts Burning John Rogers New England Primer ABC c.1815 rare Boston catechism woodcuts Burning John Rogers New England Primer ABC c.1815 rare Boston catechism woodcuts Burning John Rogers New England Primer ABC c.1815 rare Boston catechism woodcuts Burning John Rogers New England Primer ABC c.1815 rare Boston catechism woodcuts Burning John Rogers New England Primer ABC c.1815 rare Boston catechism woodcuts Burning John Rogers New England Primer ABC c.1815 rare Boston catechism woodcuts Burning John Rogers New England Primer ABC c.1815 rare Boston catechism woodcuts Burning John Rogers New England Primer ABC c.1815 rare Boston catechism woodcuts Burning John Rogers
$ 295.00

Rare juvenile chapbook.

Various age flaws to be described, please review pictures.

New England Primer, Improved or an Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading, to which is added the Assembly's Catechism.

Issued Boston, c. 1815-30 by Loring.

30 leaves in total (of which two are pasted down as issued inside the covers); 32 pp. (bound with 28 pp. supplemental Shorter Catechism according to Assembly at Westminster.

Original paper covered wooden boards with leather spine. Woodcuts.

Both covers split across middle. Well worn and handled, still sound. According to Rosenbach's collation, seems to lack a leaf or two. One leaf torn at bottom corner with some loss to woodcuts.

Scarce in any condition. 

Heartman, 343.

Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books, 531.

B15238