Old-time schools and school-books . on in 1893 f°rtwelve cents. Ten years later he sold it to a NewYork dealer for $2500. The newspapers heralded this sale throughout the The New England Primer 73 country, arousing much interest in the old primers,and giving to the average owner a fabulous idea of \ ,. i A Characteristic Bindiru Showing the oak sides, with portions of the blue paper which was pasted over the woodstill adhering. the value of his possession. As a matter of factthe chances are that five to twenty dollars is as much 74 Old-time Schools and School-books as could be realizedeven for
Old-time schools and school-books . on in 1893 f°rtwelve cents. Ten years later he sold it to a NewYork dealer for $2500. The newspapers heralded this sale throughout the The New England Primer 73 country, arousing much interest in the old primers,and giving to the average owner a fabulous idea of \ ,. i A Characteristic Bindiru Showing the oak sides, with portions of the blue paper which was pasted over the woodstill adhering. the value of his possession. As a matter of factthe chances are that five to twenty dollars is as much 74 Old-time Schools and School-books as could be realizedeven for copies ante-dating 1800. Any-thing more recent isseldom worth over adollar or two. The covers of theNew England prim-ers were usually otthin oak, thatcracked and splin-tered badly withuse, in spite of thecoarse blue paperwhich was pastedover the wood. Theback was of back norsides had any print-ing on them. Mosteditions of the primercontained a frontis- Frontispiece to a Brookfield. Mass., edition piece. For this a. Children, like tender oziers, take the bow,And as they first are fashioned always -what we learn in youth, to that alone,In age wc are by second nature prone. of 1828. Published by the firm which later became famousas the publishers of Websters Dictionary. rudely engravedportrait of the reign-ing English monarchwas customary until the Revolution, when one oranother of the American patriots had the the war Washington was the favorite frontis-piece character. Sometimes a school scene wassubstituted, as in the cut reproduced from theBrookfield edition. This same picture is to be The New England Primer found in a Boston book of 1791, but theunderneath it was — The School-Mam, fee, whofe only care,Is to inftruct her tender youth, How they may vices ways beware, And tread the fteps of peace and truth. 75verse THE PRIMER, OR AN EASY a:nd pleasant GUIDE T& THE ART OF READING, TO WHICH IS ADDED, ) , THE CATECHISM
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