A limited edition of 200 copies, printed letterpress.
Copyright date 2014 on title page verso.
Colophon: Printed & bound by Robert LoMascolo, at the sign of the Grandiloquent Squirrel, Union Springs, New York. Designed by Mark Argetsinger, at the sign of the Key, Holyoke, Massachusetts
"To Lloyd E. Cotsen, on the occassion of his eighty-fifth birthday" --Dedication on page 5.
"Introduction" by Andrea Immel, on page 7, providing background on the Cotsen collection of 550 Newbery titles, the occasion of this book's creation, and the origin of the title (Jack Whirler being Dr. Johnson's nickname for John Newbery).
Spine title: St. Paul's primer
An alphabet book, using 2 illustrative reproductions of Newbery blocks for each alphabet letter, with facing text providing context about the illustration and the work from which it comes, followed by a glossary of terms, and reprinting of an ABC text passage from "Giles Gingerbread"; original illustrations by Bewick and others.