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The silver toy, or, Picture alphabet : for the entertainment and instruction of children in the nursery
Title
The silver toy, or, Picture alphabet : for the entertainment and instruction of children in the nursery.
Physical Description
Wellington : Printed by F. Houlston and Son ; [182-?]
30, [1] pages : illustrations ; 11 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 350: Original gray pictorial wrappers; upper wrapper has vignette with caption, "A tinker"; lower wrapper vignette, "A jew." Illustrations are hand-colored.
Notes
Publisher's advertisements on [1] p. at end. First and last leaves are pastedowns.
Sources vary on dating; probable date range of 1807-1840 for Houlston publications given in Osborne Coll. (p. 479), which also notes that imprints with "65 Paternoster Row, London" began appearing in 1828.
Wrappers included in pagination.
Chapbook with woodcut illustrations, uncolored.
Variant and related titles
Silver toy
Picture alphabet
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 06, 2018
Subjects
Genre/Form
Alphabet books.
Chapbooks.
Juvenile literature.
Also listed under
F. Houlston and Son, printer.
England Wellington (Shropshire).
Bookmark As
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