The Franklin family primer
Subtitle: Containing a new and useful selection of moral lessons; : adorned with a variety of cuts, calculated to strike a lasting impression on the tender minds of children
By: By a friend to youth
Contributors: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748; Manning & Loring; Westminster Assembly (1643-1652)
Edition: Improved edition.
Publisher: Printed by and for Manning & Loring. Sold, wholesale and retail, no. 2, Cornhill.
Published: 1812
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Bible stories
Work titles: Franklin primer
Notes: Text includes Bible stories. Also includes brief pieces by Benjamin Franklin.

Issued earlier under title Franklin primer.

Not by Samuel Willard, who wrote a Franklin primer in 1826 for the Franklin (Mass.) County School Convention. Cf. Life of Samuel Willard (1892), p. 157-158.

Copyright Jan. 13, 1812 by Manning & Loring.

"Brief biography of Benjamin Franklin."--p. [3-4].

"Dr. Watts's catechisms."--p. 37-51.

"The shorter catechism, agreed upon by the Reverend Assembly of Divines, at Westminster."--p. 61-72.

Rare Book copy (Plimpton A372.4 1810 N42): No. 6 in a bound volume of titles, with the binder's title: "Tracts."

Shaw & Shoemaker 22850

Shaw & Shoemaker 27555

Heartman, C.F. Non-New England primers, 74