An Unabridged Printing of the 1777 Edition of the New-England Primer with Updated Typeface for Easier Reading (and some original pages from the 1875 edition with Illustrations), To Include: Introduction (by Joel Munsell) - A Divine Song of Praise to GOD - Morning Prayer for a Child - Evening Prayer for a Child - Alphabet - A Lesson for Children - Alphabet Poem with Illustrations - Important Questions & Answers - Infant's Grace before and after Meat - An Alphabet of Lessons for Youth - The Lord's Prayer - The Creed - Dr. Watt's Cradle Hymn - Verses for Children - Our Savior's Golden Rule - The Sum of the Ten Commandments - Advice to Youth - Remember Thy Creator in the Days of Thy Youth - Some Proper Names of Men & Women - The Burning of Mr. John Rogers - Advice to Children (John Rogers) - Choice Sentences - Learn these four Lines by Heart - Agur's Prayer - The Shorter Catechism - Spiritual Milk for American Babes - A Dialogue between Christ, A Youth and the Devil - Advice to Children (Nathanial Clap)

JOHN COTTON (1585-1652), a preeminent English clergyman, who was forced by the Church of England in 1632 to flee for New England. There he became an influential New England Puritan leader and minister. Cotton wrote several books, including Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes (1646), a catechism for children, which is considered the first children's book by an American and remained popular into the nineteenth century.