The Boston primer, being an improvement of the New-England primer
Subtitle: containing, among other things, suitable for young children, the catechism with a variety of instructive lessons and hymns, suited to the capacities of children and designed to assist them in learning to spell and read.
Contributors: Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.
Publisher: Printed and sold by Manning & Loring, no. 2 Cornhill, Boston
Published: 1808
Place of publication: [Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Readers (Primary); Catechisms, English
Other titles: New England primer.
Notes: A variant of The Boston primer described in Heartman's Non-New England primers, no. 30, with "the catechism" rather than "Dr. Watts's and the Assemby's catechisms" on the t.p.

Includes two illustrated alphabets, an illustration of John Rogers, martyr, and 6 other ill.

Bound in wooden boards covered in blue paper.

Signatures: A-D¹².

Dr. Watts's catechism, p. 76-94.

Shaw & Shoemaker 14559