Details

Subject(s)

• English language—Alphabet—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Children's poetry, English—19th century [Browse]

Related name

• Marshall, E. (Eleanor), 19th cent., publisher [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Alphabet books [Browse]
• Publishers' paper bindings [Browse]
• Inscriptions [Browse]

Notes

• Printed page of alphabet letters, followed by 4-line alphabet rhymes for each letter with illustrative examples pictured on facing leaves, and a final two-page version of of "One, two; buckle my shoe..." (here entitled "Numerical Pastime").
• First rhyme: "A / Was an Apple, Pray, have / you not seen / One striped with red / and with green?"
• Illustrations: Hand-colored engraved frontis, uncolored t.p. ill. (of a bird), 6 colored medallion vignettes on each leaf facing the vocabulary rhymes, and full-page hand-colored engraving on final leaf.
• Cotsen copy: "My darling child, John Archimbald's way of explaining all the pictures, Pitty Tee Baw ! Too Baw ! Prety Two Boys, Two Boys, Worthing 17th Oct. 1831, Gake doodle doo, Great doodle do - i.e. bird"--Inscribed across frontis. and t.p.
• Cotsen copy: Inscribed notes about child's pronunciation of vocabulary words added throughout the text in the same hand.
• Cotsen copy: 27 July, 1832, Cass Meegay (?), Scotch music, He heard some blind Scotch fiddlers that made a great impression on him"--Inscribed on front free endpaper.
• Cotsen copy: White Cotsen bookplate, dated 4/83, tipped in onto front pastedown.

Binding note

Pub. bright yellow, red-speckled wrappers, with hand-colored onlay in the shape of an urn in red, yellow, blue, and olive, with cover title set within.

Other title(s)

• Golden alphabet
• Numerical pastime
• One, two, buckle my shoe

OCLC

177759947

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