A very smartly preserved 1843 produced facsimile of the 1777 New England Primer of the American Revolution, an original edition of which in good condition could easily fetch $20,000 to $30,000 at auction.
Appropriately bound in quarter sheep with mineral blue boards and printed on handmade blue paper with some variation between sheets. A really charming production and quite desirable.
The New-England Primer Improved for the more Easy Attaining the True Reading of English. To which is added The Assembly of Divines, and Mr. Cotton's Catechism. Boston. Printed by Edward Draper, at his Printing Office, in Newbury-Street, and Sold by John Boyle in Marlborough-Street. 1777, [Here, Hartford, Connecticut. Ira Webster. 1843].
Good + to very good, some light rubbing and minor losses at extremities of binding. Very attractive. Interior nice and clean, rear pastedown a bit lifted, perhaps dampened at some point with some minor evidence of the same on the rear external board.
