• A primer for the use of the Mohawk children : to acquire spelling and reading of their own, as well as to get acquainted with the English tongue : which for that purpose is put on the opposite page

Collections:

• Cotsen Children's Library
• Indigenous Cultures
• Lloyd E. Cotsen
• Print Culture in Indigenous North America

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947194183506421

Language:

• English

Extent:

• 98 pages, 1 leaf of plates : illustrations (mezzotint) ; 13 cm (16mo)

Format:

• Book

Type:

• Readers (Publications)

Description:

• Princeton copy 1: First state issue with mezzotint (2nd state) pasted over woodcut frontispiece (1st state).
• Princeton copy 1: Mezzotint frontispiece signed "James Peachey, sculpt. 1786."
• Princeton copy 1: White Cotsen bookplate laid in, inscribed "sept, 80."

Publisher:

• London : Printed by C. Buckton, Great Pultney-Street, 1786.

Subject:

• Mohawk language—Glossaries, vocabularies, etc—Early works to 1800
• Mohawk language—Readers—Early works to 1800
• English language—Study and teaching—Mohawk speakers
• Indigenous Studies
• Readers (Publications)

References:

• English short title catalogue, T96673
• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 65548
• Pilling, J.C. Bibliography of Iroquoian languages, p. 139

Created:

• 1786-01-01T00:00:00Z

Date:

• 1786

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dcsf268g57s

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

Range label:

• Logical

Illustrator:

• Peachey, James, -1797

Text language:

• In English and Mohawk.

Alternative:

• Waerghwaghsawe iksaongoenwa Tfiwaondad-derichhonny Kaghyadog hfera : nayondeweystaghk ayeweanaghnòdon ayeghyàdow Kaniyenkehàga Kaweanondaghkouh : dyorheaf-hàga oni tfinihadiweanotea.

Printer:

• Buckton, Christopher

Call number:

• Eng 18 2841

Location:

• Special Collections Eng 18 2841