| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Lauglin Collection copy has binding covered with uncut printed-waste sheets (8 pages), the most legible being that on the upper right of the front cover: "A few days before his death, he wrote the following advice to his children: Give ear, my children, to my words [...] With all your whole intent" [in all 30 lines of the poem from 'Burning of John Rogers' are printed]. Detached from: The New England primer : containing the Assembly's catechism, The account of the burning of John Rogers, A dialogue between Christ, a youth and the Devil, and various other useful and instructive matter : with a historical introduction / by Rev. H. Humphrey [edition not identified]. |
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