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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Arthur's Alphabet / c.1875 |
| Date | c.1875 |
| Record ID | 214051 |
| Collection Name | McLoughlin Collection |
| Reference | McL-PamA7916A4561875 |
| Theme | Education and Didactic Texts Morality, Manners and Consequences Family and Relationships |
| Library of Congress Subject | Picture books for children Children's poetry Brothers and sisters Boys Families Play Toy horses Dinners and dining Household employees Horses Monkeys Corporal punishment Ships Clocks and watches Zoos |
| Genre | Poetry and Verse |
| Publisher | McLoughlin Bros |
| Places | New York |
| Document Type | Pamphlet Alphabet Book |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1875 Alphabet books--1875 Poems--1875 Publishers' advertisements--New York (State)--New York Pictorial bindings (Binding) Printed wrappers (Binding) Color printing (Printing) Chromolithographs Publishers' copies (Provenance) |
| Size | [16] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm |
| Page Numbers | 16 |
| Catalog Notes | Title and imprint statement from wrapper. Copy in hand mutilated; title reads "A[--]'s a[--]et." Alphabet begins "A is for Arthur, careful and good"; McLoughlin Bros. is known to have published a book called Arthur's alphabet. Advertisement, lower cover, mentions Big picture series, 31 kinds, quarto demi, 25 cts.; Uncle Ned's picture books and Gilt cover picture books, both large 8vo, 15 cts., Golden light series, quarto cap, printed in colors, 6 kinds, 15 cts., and Half-hours with the Bible, 12 kinds, 15 cts. These descriptions match those given in the McLoughlin trade catalogue for 1875, with the exception of the Big picture series, which the catalogue lists as "Aunt Louisa's big picture books ... fifty kinds." Cover included in pagination. Cover and illustrations chromolithographed. |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
| Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |
| Catalog Record Note | Catalog Records (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |