A guide for the child and youth in two parts. [photograph] : The first, for children, containing plain and pleasant directions to read English: with prayers, graces, and instructions, fitted to the capacity of children. The second, for youth teaching to write, cast accompts, and read more perfectly. With several other varieties, both pleasant and profitable. /
T. H.(M.A., Teacher of a private school)
Watson, James,-1722,printer.
Lewis, P. S. C.(Philip Simon Coleman),former owner.StEdNL
Edinburgh: : Printed by James Watson, & sold at his shop next door to the Red-Lyon, opposite to the Lucken-Booths.,
1711.
Originally published in 1667 (Wing H135A).
Twenty-four emblematic woodcuts in part I are repeated with more sophisticated text in part II for older children.
Signatures: A-F⁸.
ESTC
Opie
Manuscript note on the verso of the photograph "Collection of D.M &[?] P.S.C. Lewis, Oxford".
Readers (Primary)
Primers (Prayer-books)
Scotland Edinburgh.