Alphabet Cards
[circa 1880]
Complete set of Gilded Age alphabet trade cards advertising Blake's Great Piano Palace in Boston in a style reminiscent of Alfred Crowquill.
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HOME PRIMER
1897
McLoughlin Primer, including illustrated alphabets and simple word lessons with large illustrations.
Late Sixteenth Century Leather Hornbook
[circa early 17th century]
A unique leather hornbook, incorporating material from a recycled 17th century bookbinding.
THE TINY PICTURE BOOK
[circa 1854]
First edition of a sweet little alphabet reader with hand-colored illustrations.
THE UNCLE'S PRESENT: A NEW BATTLEDOOR
[circa 1810]
First edition of this alphabet-toy, used in literacy instruction yet sturdy enough to act as a bat for a shuttlecock which, in fact, was one of its intended uses.
KATE GREENAWAY'S ALPHABET
[1885]
First edition of this miniature alphabet book illustrated by Golden Age great Kate Greenaway.
THE TOY BOOK PRESENT
1872
First US edition of this children's gift book, featuring vibrant chromolithograph plates by London firm Kronheim and Co.
KLEINE ERZAHLUNGEN UBER EIN BUCH MIT KUPFERN
1809
First German translation of LITTLE PRATTLE OVER A BOOK OF PRINTS, featuring moralistic tales and the alphabet.
ARMY AND NAVY DROLLERIES
[1876]
First edition of an alphabet of rhyming "military nonsense," published in the midst of the British Empire's military expansion.
Alphabet and Verses
[circa 1830s]
Sammelband reader featuring two different alphabets, followed by short verse vignettes, with wood engraved illustrations to every page.
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