The pictured alphabet

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New-York : Published by Solomon King, 148 Fulton-Street ; [about 1820?]
Description
8 pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 85 mm

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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 153913 Pams / Eng 19 / Box 068 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Notes
    • Tentatively dated from bookseller's description.
    • Illustrations: Title page vignette and 8 illustrative vignettes, one at the top of each page of 3 letters (capitals and lower-cased) of people or objects: e.g. dunce for "D," guard for "G," and Napoleon for "N."
    • Cotsen copy: Inscribed on inside front wrapper: "Jeremiah Thompson, J Stonington [illegible], 29th 1844; presented by Catherine Thompson [illegible]," and on inside rear wrapper: "Jeremiah."
    Binding note
    Publisher's yellow printed wrappers, pictorial upper with vignette of a boy flying a kite (repeating p, 4 ill.) , and lower with King's publisher's advertisement: "Books, at one cent each," both set within typographical-device border.
    OCLC
    890269627
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