The Franklin family primer
Subtitle: containing a new and useful selection of moral lessons. : Adorned with a great variety of cuts: : calculated to strike a lasting impression on the tender minds of children
By: By a friend of youth
Contributors: Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Dunham, John Moseley, 1772-; True, Benjamin, 1765?-1845; Westminster Assembly (1643-1652)
Edition: Sixth edition.
Publisher: Printed for J.M. Dunham; by B. True. At the Columbian Museum, Tremont Street--
Published: 1806
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Portraits; Catechisms; Bible stories; Episcopal Church
Work titles: Franklin primer
Notes: "Considering it of primary importance in the education of 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. [6]. Text includes Bible stories.

Issued earlier under the title Franklin primer.

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

"Dedicated to the memory of Doctor Benjamin Franklin."--p. [5].

Wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Benjamin Franklin.

"Spiritual songs."--p. 52-57. By Isaac Watts. Without music.

"A catechism, for the instruction of children; as practiced by the Episcopal Church."--p. 57-67.

"The shorter catechism. Agreed upon by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster."--p. 67-84.

Shaw & Shoemaker 11876

Heartman, C.F. Non-New England primers, 71

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 324