Johnson's Philadelphia primer, or, A first book for children
Contributors: Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870; Dickinson & Heartt
Edition: Fourth edition, improved.
Publisher: Published by Jacob Johnson, no. 147, Market-Street.
Published: 1804
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Birds; Juvenile literature
Other titles: Philadelphia primer.
Notes: Text features an alphabet represented by various birds.

Caption title: Philadelphia primer.

"Dickinson & Heartt, printers."--colophon, p. 36.

Wood engraving, p. 16, signed: A [i.e., Alexander Anderson].

Rare Book copy: Incomplete, mutilated, and edition uncertain. T.p. wanting, but clerly either the 1804 or 1805 ed., the latter identified by the misnumbering of p. 32 as 23 (see Shaw & Shoemaker 8708), which here is wanting; not the 1807 "Philadelphia Primer," the wood engravings of which were printed in reverse of the previous eds. (see Shaw & Shoemaker 13378). All pages cut in half. Includes only the upper and lower halves of pages 5 and 6, 11 and 12, 15 and 16, 19 and 20, 25 and 26, and 33 and 34; the upper half of pages 13 and 14, 23 and 24, and 29 and 30; and the lower half of pages 27 and 28.

Shaw & Shoemaker 0

Heartman, C.F. Non-New England primers, 132