Details

Subject(s)

• Alphabets rhymes [Browse]
• English language—Alphabet—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Fishes—Juvenile poetry [Browse]

Related name

• Hodgson & Co. (Publishers) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Alphabet books [Browse]

Notes

• Illustrations are hand colored.
• "Through distant seas, in lordly pride / Behold the Arunanus glide. / The Barbel is a River Fish, / But makes a coarse unwholesome dish. / The long liv'd Carp so often sought, / By stratagem is easiest caught."--Leaves [2 & 3]
• Cotsen copy: Illustrated fish in lozenge borders with lower left and upper right sides cut.
• Cotsen copy: Inscribed "Thomas S. Perkston's book given to him by his Papa for taking his medicine like a man. -- 26th October 1826."
• Cotsen copy: Book curse pencilled below inscription "Steal not this book for fear of for over he's the owner [?]."

Binding note

Pub. pink wrappers with white hand-colored pictorial onlay printed in black.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Alphabet of Frank the fisherman
• Hodgson's Goldfish at school, or, The alphabet of Frank the fisherman

OCLC

177759497

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