Title page of A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for children, London, 1686

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A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for childrenA book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children

Name: A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for children
Author: John Bunyan

A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for children by J.B.A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B.

John Bunyan 1628–1688London: printed for N.P., 1686

[7], 79 [i.e. 80] p. · 16k words · Wing B5489 · ESTC R26565

Title page typeset from the transcription.

Instructions › An help to Chill-dren to learn to read Eng-lish.Instructions › An help to Chil-dren to learn to read Eng-lish.

Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.

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And ob-serve that e-ve-ry word or sill-la-ble (tho ne-ver so small) must have one vow-ell or more right-ly placed in it.

And ob-serve that e-ve-ry word or syl-la-ble (tho ne-ver so small) must have one vow-el or more right-ly pla•ced in it.

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For instances, These are no words nor Sill-la-bless, be-cause they have no vow-else in them; name-ly, sl, gld, straight, spll, drll, fll.

For instances, These are no words nor Syl-la-bles, be-cause they have no vow-els in them; name-ly, sl, gld, str•ght, spll, drll, fll.

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Words made of two Letters are these, and such-like, If, it, is, so, do, we, see, he, is, in, my.

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Words con-sist-ing of three Letters,

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The book

Title as printed

A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for children by J.B.A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B.

Author

John Bunyan 1628–1688

Place

London

Bookseller

N.P.

Year

1686

Size

[7], 79 [i.e. 80] p.

Words

15,599

Catalogue

Wing B5489 · ESTC R26565

Text

EEBO-TCP A30125

Passages

447

Sections

Title page

A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for childrenA book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children

To learn Chill-dren to spell a-right their names.

To learn Chil-dren to spell a-right their names.

To learn Children to know Figures, and Numeral Letters.

A BOOK FOR Boys and Girls, &c.

I. Upon the Ten Commandments.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

To learn Chill-dren to spell a-right their names.

To learn Chil-dren to spell a-right their names.

To learn Children to know Figures, and Numeral Letters.

A BOOK FOR Boys and Girls, &c.

I. Upon the Ten Commandments.