The Franklin primer
Subtitle: Containing a new and useful selection of moral lessons. : Adorned with a great variety of elegant cuts; : calculated to strike a lasting impression on the tender minds of children
By: By a friend to youth
Contributors: Dunham, John Moseley, 1772-; Westminster Assembly (1643-1652)
Publisher: Printed by J.M. Dunham.
Published: 1802
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Portraits; Catechisms; Bible stories; Episcopal Church
Notes: "Considering it an object of the highest importance in the instruction of little children ... has induced the compiler to issue this publication, as a substitute for the old primer, which has of late become almost obsolete."--Introduction, p. [vii]. Text includes Bible stories.

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.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing copyright statement in imprint.

Wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Benjamin Franklin.

"Spiritual songs."--p. [54]-58. By Isaac Watts. Without music.

"A catechism, for the instruction of children, as practiced by the Episcopal Church."--p. [59]-68.

"The shorter catechism. Agreed upon by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster."--p. 69-88.

Shaw & Shoemaker 2248

Heartman, C.F. Non-New England primers, 67

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 280