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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Alphabet and Funny Pictures / c.1874 |
| Date | c.1874 |
| Record ID | 213821 |
| Collection Name | McLoughlin Collection |
| Reference | McL-PamA456A5431874a |
| Theme | Education and Didactic Texts Professions |
| Library of Congress Subject | Picture books for children Children's poetry Occupations Caricatures and cartoons Alphabet |
| Genre | Non-Fiction Pictorial Works |
| Publisher | McLoughlin Bros |
| Places | New York |
| Document Type | Pamphlet Alphabet Book |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1874 Alphabet books--1874 Poems--1874 Publishers' advertisements--New York (State)--New York Pictorial bindings (Binding) Printed wrappers (Binding) Color printing (Printing) Chromolithographs Publishers' copies (Provenance) |
| Size | [8] leaves : col. ill. ; 25 cm |
| Page Numbers | 8 leaves |
| Catalog Notes | Alphabet book containing rhyme "A was an archer." Title, imprint, and series statement from wrapper. Series statement transposed from head of title. Variant states noted; wrapper colors vary. Advertisement, lower cover, mentions Big picture series, 35 kinds, price 25 cents each; Gilt cover picture books, price 15 cents, royal 8vo, 4 pictures pr. in colors, and Ancient nursery rhymes, mediaeval style, set to music, long 12mo., gilt back grounds and brilliant oil colors price 10 cents each. The trade catalogue, McLoughlin Bros., New York. Catalogue of toy books, ... for 1875-'76 lists 50 titles in the Big picture series; and the description for Ancient nursery rhymes mentions a bigger 8vo format, so issue in hand probably pre-dates 1876. Illustrations chromolithographed. Wrapper printed in red, green, and black ink. Includes publisher's advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper. |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
| Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |
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