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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The New England Primer: A Reprint of the Earliest Known Edition, With Many Facsimiles and Reproductions, and an Historical Introduction

The New England Primer: A Reprint of the Earliest Known Edition, With Many Facsimiles and Reproductions, and an Historical Introduction

Editor Paul Leicester Ford

Paperback

General ChristianityGeneral EducationRegional: West

ISBN10: 9353604028
ISBN13: 9789353604028
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 30 2019
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Long before modern classrooms, a tiny, stern little book taught generations of colonial children to read, pray, and think. Small book, immense cultural weight. The New England Primer stands at the crossroads of colonial American literacy and Puritan religious education, the early American textbook and early American catechism that shaped daily life in colonial New England and across seventeenth century America. In this authoritative new england primer facsimile, editor Paul Leicester Ford brings together the earliest known text of the Primer with careful notes that trace its development, use, and influence. Drawing on rare originals, this historical facsimile edition reproduces pages, woodcuts, and title matter so that modern readers glimpse the Primer exactly as early pupils encountered it, while Ford's historical introduction illuminates its role in early American schoolrooms, family devotions, and public morals. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Essential for historians of education, students of colonial American culture, and homeschool classical education families, it also enriches any early American schoolbook collection and will particularly appeal to McGuffey reader collectors interested in the roots of the genre. More than a curiosity, The New England Primer emerges here as a living cultural document: austere, compelling, and foundational.

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