M'Carty's American Primer. Being a Selection of Words The Most Easy of Pronunciation. Intended to facilitate the Improvement of Children in Spelling.
Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis (successors to the Late Benjamin Warner), 171 Market Street, 1828. [JUVENILE] [NON-FICTION]. 32mo (5 ½” x 3 ½”); 36pp; blue stiff wrapper, large Federal style eagle wood engraving on front within a double black fillet, rear wrapper has a printed quiz for children titled “Questions for Children”; publisher’s string binding; pictorial title page with wood engraving of 3 children fishing and reading; 7pp of alphabet; 1 ½ pp pictorial alphabet; 12 small wood engravings of animals; chipping to rear wrapper at head and lower corner, light age-toning; very good plus. (Rosenbach 714.). Item #2353
An early American children’s primer featuring wonderful wood engravings.
Price: $175.00