The Floral Alphabet, in Gold and Colors / c.1846-1847 : Alphabet Book; Picture Book. c.1846-1847.

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, Boston : Colman, S, 2020.

32 unnumbered leaves : color illustrations ; 19 cm

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"A glance at a little girl's primer, in which poor rhymes, false measure, bad English, and worse pictures, seemed calculated to lower all love and taste for the beautiful and graceful, suggested the accompanying fairy tale, in which I have endeavored to weave pleasant associations around the first lesson of childhood."--preface, p. [3]. Alphabet does not include U or X. "The floral alphabet Little May's first lesson."--additional chromolithographed title plate. Caption title: The flower alphabet, or Little Mary's [sic] first lesson. Copyright 1845 by Samuel Colman. Samuel Colman published at 30 Cornhill, Boston, from 1846 to 1847. Title page printed in red and blue ink; illustrated plates chromolithographed. Pagination: [1] leaf of plates, [2] p. (title page and verso), [5] leaves of text, [1] blank leaf, [24] leaves of plates with captions in verse. In blue cloth with patterned endpapers. Includes errata note tipped in at p. [3]."

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January 13, 2023