Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The New-York preceptor, or, Third book.
Call Number
PE1119.A1 N4s
Pams / Eng 19 / Box 014 2261
Hamilton 275s
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/m613n237m
Publisher
New York : Published by Samuel Wood & Sons, No. 261, Pearl-Street ; Baltimore : And Samuel S. Wood & Co., No. 212, Market-Street, [between 1817 and 1824]
Language
English
Date Created
1822
Extent
68 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 14 cm.
References
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books 465.
Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.), no. 275
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Some illustrations signed "A" (i.e., Alexander Anderson).
Dated from publisher's addresses in New York and Baltimore, as noted in the AAS's 19th-Century American Children's Book Trade Directory.
Dated from copyright notice.
Alphabet, syllabaries, lists of 3- , 4- and 5-letter words, short readings with longer words divided syllabically.
Princeton copy 2 White Cotsen bookplate, dated "12 '73" tipped in to inside lower wrapper.
Binding Note
Pub. tan pictorial wrappers printed in black, upper with a vignette below title, and lower with two illustrations, one above the other.
Princeton copy 1 3 different variations of wrapper illustrations.
Princeton copy 2 3 different variations of wrapper illustrations.
Princeton copy 3 3 different variations of wrapper illustrations.

Discovery Information

Subject
Readers (Primary)
English language—Alphabet—Pictorial works
Chapbooks, American
Bookplates

Physical Characteristics

File Count
77

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/437a54d0-f623-4b9f-85ec-f15debd02d5b/manifest