The A B C both in Latyn & Englyshe
Subtitle: being a facsimile reprint of the earliest extant English reading book
By: with an introduction by E.S. Shuckburgh
Publisher: Elliott Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C.
Published: 1889
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Latin language; Textbooks for foreign speakers; English; Readers (Primary); Primers (Prayer books); Church of England
Notes: Facsim. of the primer in the library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

"This primer has no date; but it was printed by Thomas Petyt ... [who] printed at London from 1536 to about 1554"--P. vi.

Colophon of original reads: Thus endeth the A B C trauslated [sic] out of Laten to to [sic] Englyshe with other deuote prayers. Imprinted at Londó mPaules Chyrche yarde at the sygne of the maydens heed by thomas Petyt.

Original in black letter.

Rare Book copy: Laid-in autograph manuscript signed to George A. Plimpton from Samuel Putnam Avery, [New York], June 25 [1896].

Osborne Coll., p. 691