Details

Subject(s)

• Caricatures and cartoons—Great Britain [Browse]
• English language—Alphabets—Pictorial works [Browse]
• English language—Alphabets—Juvenile literature [Browse]

Publisher

• Darton & Clark [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• Engravings [Browse]

Series

Sixpenny books [More in this series]

Notes

• "Sixpenny books, published by Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill"--Head of publisher's advertisement on lower cover.
• Date from Darton.
• 12 leaves, printed on one side only, first and last pasted down to wrappers.
• Illustrations: Two engraved, hand-colored, circular scenes within frames on each page, one illustrating each alphabet letter (except for "I" and "J" and "U" and "V," which both share illustrations).
• The letter B, "bound into boards," is illustrated by a man carrying advertising sandwitch boards, and the letter A, "anatomical researches," is illustrated by a grave-digger.
• Cotsen copy: Bookplate of Herbert Rivington Pyne on front pastedown.

Binding note

• Pub. stiff gray wrappers with pictorial design on upper cover, incorporating the 5 vowels, and publisher's advertisement for various children's titles on lower.
• Cotsen copy: Bound into later maroon half-morocco bds., with gray endpapers.

References

Darton, L. The Dartons, H314

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Comic alphabet
• Cruikshank's comic alphabet

OCLC

244787309

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