The New England primer, improved : for the more easy attaining the true reading of English : to which is added the Assembly of Divines' Catechism
The New England Primer, improved, printed in Hartford in 1803 by Lincoln & Gleason for themselves and Hudson & Goodwin, is a children's alphabet reader that also carries the Westminster Assembly's catechism for young New England readers. Its pages pair each letter with a rhyming couplet and a small woodcut of a Bible story, animal, or everyday object, set in a narrow vertical strip beside the text. A designer might take the compact, boxed woodcut panels stacked down the margin as a model for modular picture-and-caption layouts with plain, blocky figures.
