The moral and entertaining alphabet, or, An attempt to render the rudiments of reading agreeable : consisting of moral and amusing verses, and an elegant copper-plate adapted to every letter of the alphabet, and designed to illustrate each other, as well as to give delight with improvement.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Printed for W. Tringham, no. 11, the left hand side of Fleet-Ditch, leading to Black Friars Bridge, and sold by W. Harris, St. Paul's Church Yard, and all other Booksellers, stationers, toy-shops, &c. in Great Britain and Ireland, [between 1768 and 1775]
Description
6 pages, 27 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (copper-engravings) ; 12 cm
"Price 9 d., coloured 1 s. 6d." --At foot of frontispiece.
"Neatly bound in gilt covers. Price nine-pence" --At foot of title page.
Illustrations: Copper-engraved frontispiece and 26 leaves of plates, with illustrations, each with a rhyming alphabet couplet below.
Princeton copy 1 Frontispiece and plates are hand-colored.
Princeton copy 2 Frontispiece and plates uncolored.
Princeton copy 1 Lacks text pages (with facsimile title page laid in) and illustrated leaves for letters I, W, X, and Y.
Princeton copy 1 Illegible inscription and pen trials on front pastedown.
Binding note
Dutch floral paper-covered boards.
Other title(s)
Attempt to render the rudiments of reading agreeable
Alphabet, rendered instructive and entertaining, upon an entirely new plan
OCLC
33246529
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