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Mounted picture toy book : comprising, Nursery rhyme alphabet, Nursery numbers, The tiny tea party, The book of trades ; with thirty-two pages of illustrations, printed in colours.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Frederick Warne & Co. ; New York : Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, [between 1872 and 1878]
Description
[2], [2], 8, [1], [2], 8, [1], [2], 8, [1] leaves ; col. ill. (chromolithographs) ; 25 cm.
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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library
14896 Eng 19
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Subject(s)
English language
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Alphabet
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Pictorial works
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Counting
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Parties
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Fiction
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Occupations
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Juvenile literature
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Children
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Juvenile literature
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Illustrator
Barstow, Montagu
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Binder
Greening, W.
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Publisher
Frederick Warne (Firm)
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Scribner, Welford & Armstrong
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Fiction
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Rare books genre
Alphabet books
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Readers
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Linen-finished papers
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Publishers' cloth bindings
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19th century
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Series
Warne's mounted picture toy books
Notes
Dated from years Scribner, Welford & Armstrong published under that imprint.
Mounted on linen.
Printed on one side only.
4 titles, bound together in this ed. with collective t.p. and individual half-titles; each also issued separately as part of Warne's Excelsior Toy Book series.
Each title with text on second and last leaves with 8 leaves of chromolithographs in between.
Nursery Rhyme Alphabet is not the same as Ward, Lock, and Tyler's "Nursery Rhymes Alphabet" (cf. Cotsen 28712).
Some plates in Book of Trades signed with stylized "MB" (i.e. Barstow?), and plates in Tiny Tea Party signed "WLG" or WG" (?).
Cotsen copy: W. (i.e. William) Greening, binder, 183 Fleet Street"--Edition binder's ticket on rear pastedown.
Binding note
Pub. green bds., black- and gilt-stamped on upper cover with title and pictorial design, gilt-stamped on spine with title, and blind-stamped on lower cover with decorative Warne monogram; all edges gilt; pale yellow endpapers.
Contents
Nursery rhyme alphabet
Nursery numbers
The tiny tea party
The book of trades.
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Other title(s)
Warne's mounted picture toy book
Tiny tea party.
Book of trades.
OCLC
177773537
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