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Beauties of the New-England primer

Samuel Wood & Sons, publisher · 1818 · New York : Published by Samuel Wood & Sons, 261 Pearl-Street, [ca. 1818] · 9 pictures

A primer for young children published in New York by Samuel Wood & Sons around 1818, a successor to the New England Primer and built on its rhymed alphabet and catechism. The woodcuts are small, crude, black-and-white and paired with short verses, offering a designer simple, bold cut-style figures and emblems such as the owl, the eagle, the rose and the Bible.

Catechisms, English · Juvenile literature · New england primer · Readers (Primary)

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