• Routledge's coloured ABC book : containing, Alphabet of fairy tales, Farm-yard alphabet, Alphabet of flowers, Tom Thumb's alphabet / with twenty-four pages of illustrations by Kronheim and others.

Created:
  • 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1871
Collections:
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/3b591k06z
Title:
  • Routledge's coloured ABC book : containing, Alphabet of fairy tales, Farm-yard alphabet, Alphabet of flowers, Tom Thumb's alphabet / with twenty-four pages of illustrations by Kronheim and others.
Language:
  • English
Call number:
  • Eng 19 9761
Extent:
  • [54] leaves : col. ill. (chromolith.) ; 27 cm.
Format:
  • Book
Description:
  • Dated from Cotsen copy inscription.
  • Leaves mounted on cloth.
  • The Alphabet of Flowers attributed to Mrs. Hawtrey on the basis of the title page to her Alphabet of fruits for good children, in which she is described as the author of this work. The rhyming alphabet begins: "A for anemones, telling of Spring,/ And the gladness and brightness their gay colours bring/ B is for blue-bell, that sparkles with dew,/ And carpets the ground with its flowers of blue./ C for convolvulus, children's delight,/ Which opens in day-time, and shuts up at night." The Alphabet of Flowers attributed to Mrs. Hawtrey was previously published by Routledge, Warne and Routledge ca. 1860 (Cotsen cid 4322).
  • "List of illustrations" on leaf [3]. The leaves of illustrations for Farm-yard alphabet and Alphabet of flowers are signed "Leighton, Bros." The leaves of illustrations of Tom Thumb's alphabet are signed "Leighton, Bros." or "Leighton, Brothers" with several signed "Mc" or "Dalziel." Opie attributes the illustrations to William McConnell cited below. Tom Thumb's Alphabet is an expanded version of the traditional nursery rhyme "A was an archer."
  • The Farm-yard alphabet is a different work than the one by the same title illustrated by Walter Crane. The text begins: A stands for Ass, who eats thistles and grass;/ He is useful and patient, though only an ass./ B is for bees, that fly out here and there,/ And bring to the hives the sweet honey with care./ C for the cows, in the shade of the trees;/ They are chewing the cud, and seem quite at their ease."
  • Cotsen copy: Inscription at head of title: "Ronald Vernon from his affectionate Mama 1871".
  • Cotsen copy: White Cotsen bookplate dated 1/79 on front pastedown.
  • Cotsen copy: Bibliotique, A.B.A. ... Bath advertisement card laid in.
Publisher:
  • London (The Broadway, Ludgate) ; New York (416 Broome street) : George Routledge and Sons, [not after 1871]
Subject:
  • Fairy tales—Juvenile poetry
  • English language—Alphabet—Pictorial works
  • Domestic animals—Juvenile poetry
  • Children—Conduct of life—Juvenile poetry
  • Flowers—Juvenile poetry
  • Alphabet books
  • Inscriptions—19th century
Range label:
  • Logical
Illustrator:
  • McConnell, William, 1833-1867
Contributor:
  • George Routledge and Sons
Alternative:
  • ABC picture book
Engraver:
  • Leighton Bros. (London, England)
  • Dalziel Brothers
References:
  • Opie, Three centuries, 620.
  • Masaki, T. Victorian popular pic. bks, p. 798
Lithographer:
  • Kronheim & Co.
Binding note:
  • Pub. blue pictorial cloth stamped in black, red, and gilt.
Location:
  • Special Collections Eng 19 9761
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