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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