The plain letter alphabet.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[London] : George Routledge & Sons, [after 1879]
Description
[8] leaves : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Copies in the Library

Location Call Number Status
Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 1744 Pams / Eng 19 / Box 071 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Publisher
    Rare books genre
    Series
    Routledge's new sixpenny toy books ; 120 [More in this series]
    Notes
    • Date based on inclusion of "House that Jack Built" (1879) in publisher's advertisement on lower wrapper.
    • Title and publisher from upper wrapper, which serves as t.p.
    • "Price Sixpence, or Mounted in Linen, One Shilling"--At head of title.
    • 4 bifolia, printed on one side only; first and last leaves pasted down to wrappers.
    • Printed by Evans in a design based on Routledge's "Large Letters for Little Ones" (cf. Masaki, II, 125).
    • Text begins: "Arthur and Albert eating Apples, Basil busy with Butterflies, Clara crying her Cherries..." and it uses children's names beginning with the same letter as the illustrative objects.
    • Illustrations: 8 leaves with 3-4 large blue and smaller black printed alphabet letters, complemented by illustrations using large red alphabet letter as backdrops or props for children to lean and climb on; possibly planographic copies of the engravings in Routledge's later "Routledge's Picture Scraps" (Cotsen 2862; cf. also J.H. Howard's variation on them in McLoughlin's Great Big ABC, Cotsen 4494).
    • Cotsen copy: "Anne Mary Herbert, Wainfawn (?)"--Inscribed across leaves [1-2].
    Binding note
    Pub. yellow wrappers, with pictorial upper, repeating engraving for the letter "O" set within a red decorative border; title in red-filled black letters; publisher's advertisement on lower lists "Sixpenny" title nos. 2-122.
    References
    Masaki, T. Victorian popular picture bks., I, p. 572
    OCLC
    177738247
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