The Protestant tutor
Subtitle: Instructing children to spel and read English, and grounding them in the true Protestant religiõ, and discovering the errors and deceits of the Papists
Publisher: Printed for Ben. Harris under the piazza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhil
Published: 1681
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Notes: Numbers 129-130 (2d count) omitted in paging.

Illustrated t.-p., headed "The burning of London by the Papists".

Dedication to the Duke of Monmouth signed, prelim. leaf 4: Benjamin Harris.

Also, though erroneously, attributed to Benjamin Keach.

Illustration facing p.1 signed: I. Drapentier sculp.

First edition advertised 27 Feb. 1679/80; & again 1 Feb. 1680/81 "now reprinted; dedicated to the ... Duke of Monmouth." Cf. W. L. Ford, "Benjamin Harris, printer and bookseller", Proc. of the Mass. hist. soc. 57 (1923-24), p.46, 56, & P. L. Ford, ed. The New England primer (1899), p.34-37.

The BM copy appears to be an earlier edition; cf. the facsimile edition by Sister Mary A. Ray, "The Protestant tutor ...", Historical records and studies 30 (1939), 65-139. In this edition, p.2, ℓ.2 ends "True De-", p.21, ℓ.18-19 end "pe-" & "that the" respectively, p.51 has no catchword, p.87, ℓ.3 ends "he", p.105 has reading "Kederminster", p.118 (2d count), ℓ.2 ends "Na-" & p.131 (2nd count), ℓ.1 ends "of Po-".

"A little book of martyrs: or, The history of the kings of England ..." (p.98-117 (2d count)) is in verse. This part of the book appears to have been published separately in 1695.