Works Cited

Editions of The New England Primer

The Beauties of the New England Primer (c.1818): https://www.loc.gov/item/10011910/

The New England Primer, facsimile (1850) of the 1777 edition: https://archive.org/details/newenglandprimer00cott/page/n9/mode/2up

The New England Primer, 1800 edition: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/cite-write/citation-style-guides/chicago/books

The New England Primer, c.1803 edition: https://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/exhibitions_legacy/NewEnglandPrimerWeb/text.html

The New England Primer, 1830 edition: https://archive.org/details/newenglandprimer00inwest/page/n1/mode/2up

The New England Primer: a history of its origin and development (1897): https://archive.org/details/newenglandprimer00ford

The New England Primer Printed in America Prior to 1830.  This volume (1915) contains scans of many editions before 1830: https://archive.org/details/cu31924029588674

The New England Primer: a reprint (1899) to the earliest known edition: https://archive.org/details/newenglandprimer00fordiala/page/4/mode/2up

Information and Criticism

Smith, S. James. "The New-England Primer." Encyclopedia Britannica, March 4, 2019. https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-New-England-Primer.

Trent and Wells, eds. Colonial Prose and Poetry. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1901; Bartleby.com, 2010. https://www.bartleby.com/163/304.html

Watters, David H. “‘I Spake as a Child’: Authority, Metaphor and ‘The New-England Primer.’” Early American Literature 20, no. 3 (1985): 193–213. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25055557