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245 04 The alphabet ladder, or Gift for the nursery.
246 30 Gift for the nursery.
264  1 London : |bPublished by G. Martin, 6 Gt. St. Thos. Apostle, |c[between 1817 and 1839]
300    16 pages : |billustrations (hand-colored engravings) ; |c16 cm
336    text |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |2rdamedia
338    volume |2rdacarrier
500    Cover title and imprint.
500    "Price 1 shilling coloured"--After title on upper wrapper.
500    First and last pages laid down to wrappers.
500    Martin active at 6 Great St. Thomas Apostle from 1817-1839 (cf. Todd, Directory of printers, p. 127)
500    Text begins: "Aa: A stands for Alfred / A fam'd British King" ; "Bb: B for a Bullfinch / That can sweetly sing."
520    Following frontispiece are 13 engraved pages of alphabet letters (both upper-and lower-cased), arranged two to a page, accompanied by couplets of verse and illustrative hand-colored depictions of personages, animals, objects, flowers, or plants, including: King Alfred, a Dutch ship, a Frenchman, a knight, a miller, a naughty boy, a street pedlar, verjuice, a usurer, a wise man from the East, a youth studying, a zany with a duncecap; the final 2 pages each contain 2 vignettes of children or young adults sporting outside.
563    Publisher's stiff salmon-orange wrappers, upper (with hand-colored engraved pictorial onlay label) presenting a version of frontispiece illustration of a Britannia-like Fame atop an alphabetic pedestal column, admired by 4 children below on the ground.
583 0   |xVol. 4 done |c20140729
650  0 English language |xAlphabet |vJuvenile literature. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103036
650  0 Animals |vPictorial works |vJuvenile literature. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101144
650  0 Children |xPictorial works |vJuvenile literature.
655  7 Primers (Instructional books). |2rbmscv
655  7 Pictorial paper wrappers. |2rbgenr
700 1  Martin, G. |q(George), |dactive 1812-1846, |epublisher. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93025909
856 42  |3Commentary |uhttps://blogs.princeton.edu/cotsen/2014/09/a-is-for-apple-adam-abolitionist/
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904    llb |bo |hn |cb |e20070625
914    (OCoLC)on1340127507 |bOCoLC |creplace |d20230125 |eprocessed |f1340127507