OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book
An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.
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as could be realized even for copies antedating 1800. Anything more recent is seldom worth over a dollar or two.
The covers of the New England primers were usually of thin oak, that cracked and splintered badly with use, in spite of the coarse blue paper which was pasted over the wood. The back was of leather. Neither back nor sides had any print- |
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ing on them. Most editions of the primer contained a frontispiece. For this a rudely engraved portrait of the reigning English monarch was customary until the Revolution, when one or another of the American patriots had the honor. After the war Washington was the favorite frontispiece character. Sometimes a school scene was substituted, as in the cut reproduced from the Brookfield edition. This same picture is to be  |
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