Details

Subject(s)

• Alphabet—Study and teaching—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Occupations—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Industrial arts—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Occupations—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Satire, French—17th Century [Browse]
• Toy and movable books—Specimens [Browse]
• Wit and humor [Browse]

Printer

Plon, Henri [Browse]

Illustrator

Cordier, A. [Browse]

Publisher

Darton and Hodge [Browse]

Series

• Amusing Alphabet. [More in this series]
• Amusing alphabet

Notes

• Cover title in English and French; series name (in English only) at head of title.
• Date from Darton (cited below).
• First and last leaves laid down to covers.
• Printed on one side only.
• "Paris, Typ. Henri Plon, Rue Garancière, 8" --Printer at foot of last leaf.
• Illustration for Zanni is signed "A. Cordier" at its foot.
• Princeton copy 1: White Cotsen bookplate, laid in, dated "12/83."
• Illustrations: 22 humorously illustrative chromolithographs depicting tradesmen and tradeswomen or occupations, captioned below with the name of the trades in both French and English (French first); illustrative examples for the letters A-Z, excluding W, with Y and Z presented on the same leaf (Astronomer, Butcher, and Coiffeur to Xénographe [a Dickens-like author tearing at his hair], and Zanni; Bouffon Italien).

Binding note

Publisher's black cloth boards, embossed in a floral pattern; upper cover with chromolithographed paper onlay (with title, imprint and series), set within a gold-embossed ribbon border; titles within two decorative banners, the English version on top.

References

Darton, L. The Dartons, H279

Other title(s)

• Les petits metiers de grand papa
• Petits metiers de grand papa
• Book of trades

OCLC

1121249096

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