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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Youths' Battledoor / c.1828-1843 |
| Date | c.1828-1843 |
| Record ID | 271088 |
| Collection Name | Alphabet Books |
| Reference | CL-PamY835B3351828 |
| Theme | Education and Didactic Texts Animals and Nature |
| Library of Congress Subject | Picture books Birds Animals Cats |
| Genre | Pedagogical Texts |
| Publisher | Turner, E |
| Places | Northampton |
| Document Type | Pamphlet Alphabet Book |
| Book Type | Relief prints Printed wrappers (Binding) Juvenile literature--1828 Alphabet books--1828 Chapbooks--1828 Publishers' advertisements--Massachusetts--Northampton Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) |
| Size | [16] p. : ill. ; 13 cm |
| Catalog Notes | An alphabet with pictures and one-word captions. Also includes numerous pictures of birds. Elisha Turner is known to have been active as a publisher as early as 1828. Turner died at age 41 on May 13, 1843. See the Hampshire gazette, May 16, 1843. In printed wrapper. "Toy books. E. Turner, has in press, four sizes of toy books, mostly original, with very neat wood engravings, prepared expressly for these books. It is confidently believed that the contents will be found unexceptionable as to the moral tendency as well as entertaining and instructive."--publisher's advertisement, p. [4] of printed wrapper. Wood-engraving in publisher's advertisement signed "M" (i.e., Abraham John Mason?). |
| 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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