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Baby's own alphabet
Author
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : George Routledge & Sons, [1875] ([London] : Edmund Evans, engraver and printer)
Description
8 leaves : col. ill. (wood engravings) ; 25 cm.
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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library
2394 Eng 19
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Subject(s)
English language
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Alphabet
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Nursery rhymes
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Juvenile fiction
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Printer.e
Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
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Publisher
George Routledge and Sons
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Poetry
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Rare books genre
Alphabet Books
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Printed wrappers (Binding).
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Series
Routledge's new sixpenny toy books ; 114
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Walter Crane's toy books. New Series.
Notes
Date from Spencer and Masaki, who notes a single toy book ed. (Osborne, after Massé, provides a date of c.1874).
Title, publisher, and series from cover; printer from lower wrapper (lacking on Cotsen ed.).
An alphabet of nursery rhymes.
4 chromoxylograph bifolia, printed on one side only; leaves 1 and 8 pasted down to inside wrappers.
Illustrations: 8 full-page chromoxylographs with large alphabet letter in a panel on the left-hand side and 3-4 illustrative vignettes, signed by Crane, each in a separate panel with a verse couplet underneath.
Binding note
Pub. yellow wrappers with chromoxylograph design by Crane (integrating a schoolmaster crane into the design) on upper wrapper in green, red, and black, and cover title set into a centered box.
References
Masaki, T. Victorian popular picture bks., p. 566
Spencer, I. Walter Crane, p. 202
Osborne Coll., p. 92.
Massé, G.C.W. Walter Crane, p. 12
LCCN
78325898
OCLC
12954235
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