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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Alphabet of American Subjects / c.1862-1864 |
| Date | c.1862-1864 |
| Record ID | 537830 |
| Collection Name | McLoughlin Competitors |
| Reference | McL-CompB104 |
| Theme | Travel Education and Didactic Texts Nationality and Place |
| Library of Congress Subject | Picture books for children Children's poetry Indians of North America Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) Cotton Dry docks Electricity Horse-drawn omnibuses Steamboats Railroads |
| Genre | Pictorial Works |
| Publisher | Fisher & Brother |
| Places | Philadelphia |
| Illustrator | Howell, Joseph B |
| Document Type | Alphabet Book |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1862 Alphabet books--1862 Poems--1862 Publishers' advertisements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia Publishers' advertisements--Maryland--Baltimore Color printing (Printing) Printed wrappers (Binding) Pictorial bindings (Binding) Relief prints Hand colored illustrations Publishers' copies (Provenance) |
| Size | [16] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm |
| Catalog Notes | In vese. Cover title. "Fisher & Brother's (12 N. Sixth Street, Philadelphia, and 64 Baltimore Street, Baltimore,) famous picture books ..."--advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper. Fisher & Brother was located at 12 North Sixth St., Philadelphia, between 1862 and 1868. The address changes to 9 North Sixth St. in the directory for 1868-69. Fisher & Brother also published at 64 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore, between 1855 and 1864. According to the Baltimore directory for 1865-66, the firm name changed to Fisher and Denison. Cover printed in color. First and last page blank; pasted to wrapper. Wood engravings variously signed by "Louderback-Hoffmann sc," "Howell" (i.e., Joseph B. Howell?), "E. Rogers sc." (i.e., Edward Rogers?), and "C. Schuessele." "Home picture books, profusely illustrated, and painted in all the colors of the rainbow. Royal octavo, 6 kinds, 2 of each kind in the dozen, 16 pages each, printed and splendidly colored. ... Alphabet of American subjects."--p. [4] of wrapper. Illustrations are hand-colored. |
| Linked Documents |
Alphabet of American Subjects, / c.1855 |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
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