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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Picture alphabet / between 1862 and 1864 |
| Date | between 1862 and 1864 |
| Record ID | 548916 |
| Collection Name | McLoughlin Competitors |
| Reference | McL-CompB138 |
| Theme | Education and Didactic Texts |
| Library of Congress Subject | Picture books for children Children's poetry Counting-out rhymes Animals Country life Orphans Beggars Charity Queens Waterfalls Literacy |
| Genre | Pedagogical Texts |
| Publisher | Fisher & Brother |
| Places | Philadelphia |
| Document Type | Pamphlet |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1862 Alphabet books--1862 Poems--1862 Publishers' advertisements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia Publishers' advertisements--Maryland--Baltimore Color printing (Printing) Pictorial bindings (Binding) Printed wrappers (Binding) Relief prints Publishers' copies (Provenance) Hand colored illustrations. |
| Size | [16] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm |
| Catalog Notes | In verse. Cover title. Includes pictures of Girard College and the Philadelphia State House that served both the state and national leglislatures between 1790 and 1800 on p. [15]. "Fisher & Brother's (12 No. Sixth Street, Philadelphia, and 64 Baltimore Street, Baltimore,) famous picture books ..."--advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper. Fisher & Brother was located at 12 N. Sixth St., Philadelphia between 1862 and 1868, and at 64 Baltimore St., Baltimore between 1855 and 1864. First and last page blank; pasted to wrapper. Wood engraving on p. [1] of wrapper printed in red and green ink; textual wood engravings hand-colored under the direction of the publisher. |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
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