The American primer, calculated for the instruction of young children
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 3669
Publisher: Printed by A.C. Jordan & Co.
Published: 1803
Place of publication: Norfolk [Va.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Children and death; Poetry; Children's poetry
Notes: "Lessons in reading."--p. 25-40.

"Mr. John Rodgers [i.e., Rogers], minister of the Gospel in London ... Some days before his death, he wrote the following advice to his children. ..."--p. 41-45.

"Elmina: or, The flower that never fades. A moral tale."--p. 59-71. Attributed to Charles François Philibert Masson in the Biographie universelle, where it is noted that Elmina was the Princess Wilhelmine de Courlande.

"A.C. Jordan & Co. have just received from Europe and the northward ... books ... stationary ... clover and garden seeds. Printing carried on as usual, and blank books bound to any size or pattern. No. 2, Market-Square, Norfolk."--p. [72].

Shaw & Shoemaker 3669

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Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.