"The favourable reception which the Young child's A, B, C, or, First book, and the New-York primer, have met with, induces the publisher to bring forward a gradual succession of books, which for a long time, he has conceived would be proper."--Page [2]

Copyright "the third day of August, in the forty-seventh year of the independence of the United States of America" (i.e., 1822) by Samuel Wood & Sons. Samuel Wood & Sons published at 261 Pearl St., New York, between 1817 and 1836

Lacks printer statement seen in other editions

Heavily illustrated

Gift; Frances Henne; 1985.

In illustrated printed wrapper; first and last pages pasted to pages [2] and [3] of wrapper