Details

Subject(s)

• English language—Alphabet—Pictorial works [Browse]
• English language—Alphabet—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Trains—Juvenile literature [Browse]

Publisher

• Frederick Warne (Firm) [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Alphabet books [Browse]
• Publishers' advertisements [Browse]
• Publishers' copies [Browse]

Series

Aunt Louisa's playtime toy books ; 90

Notes

• Title, imprint, and series no. from upper wrapper; publisher, location, and series name from lower wrapper.
• "Cloth lined"--At head of title.
• Tentative date from style of chromolithograph wrappers (this ed. postdates 1881, since it includes New York in Warne's imprint on lower wrapper).
• 7 mounted bifolia, printed with first and last leaves laid down to wrappers.
• Illustrations: 4 chromolithographs on one side of leaf with single-color lithographs in either sepia or green on the other, both with lithographed text integrated into page design.
• One of several Warne variations on this alphabet rhyme, beginning "A stands for the Arch that's thrown over a stream"; text and ill. distinct from Warne's earlier London Toy Book with same title (cf. Cotsen 18150).
• Cotsen copy: "Property Room, Not to be Taken Away"--Warne Archive inked stamp on front pastedown and p. [1].
• Cotsen copy: Warne Archive.

Binding note

Pub. stiff color-printed wrappers, pictorial upper with chromolithograph of a flag-draped royal train, with title in red decorative font, and a small circled "90" on lower left; lower wrapper with pictorial publisher's advertisement with "List of Titles" for Aunt Louisa's playtime toy books with 7 titles, including this one.

Place name(s)

• England London
• Holland

OCLC

177704023

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