Details

Subject(s)

• Alphabet rhymes [Browse]
• English language—Alphabet—Juvenile poetry [Browse]

Attributed name

• Green, J. W. (J. William), 1782?-1860 [Browse]

Illustrator

• Mason, Walter George, 1820-1866 [Browse]

Publisher

• Darton & Co. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Alphabet books [Browse]

Notes

• Attributed to J.W. Green by Darton, cited below.
• Date from Cotsen copy inscription.
• Illustrations: front. and engraved t.p. with vignette signed: W.G. Mason; 26 other leaves each with an alphabet letter in upper and lower case, an engraved illustration, and a two-line verse.
• Cotsen copy: Inscribed on cover p. 2: C.F. Burrows / from W.D. Sykes / 1850; stamp: ex Opie Collection.
• Cotsen copy: Plates separated into leaves and bound in book form; colored unlike the Opie copy described by Darton.

Binding note

Cotsen copy: Pub. blue decorated wrappers printed in red and black with first and last leaves pated to inner wrappers, bound in later half green roan and marbled boards.

References

Darton, L. The Dartons, H662

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

England London.

First line of alphabet

• A stands for apple, which here you may see

OCLC

63091174

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