• Father Tuck's Noah's Ark ABC.

Created:
  • 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1890
Collections:
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/kp78gk65h
Title:
  • Father Tuck's Noah's Ark ABC.
Language:
  • English
Call number:
  • Pams / Eng 19 / Box 067 6540219
Extent:
  • 12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations (chromolithographs) ; 24 x 34 cm
Format:
  • Book
Type:
  • Poetry
Description:
  • Cover title and imprint.
  • "No 3100, designed at the studios in England." --At foot of cover.
  • Tentatively dated on style of printing and illustration of similarly-dated Tuck publications.
  • Alphabet rhymes -- "A stands for Ape... B is for the Bear ... Z stands for the Zebu" -- with verse on both pastedowns, beginning: "Come hurry little ones, come and see, / This truly wonderful A, B and C, / Come watch all the animals two, by two," / The tall giraffe and the queer kangaroo."
  • Illustrations: Each alphabet rhyme is each illustrated by a vignette of the animal mentioned in the rhyme, accompanying a large colored alphabet letter; below the rhymes are illustrations of other animals two-by-two; uncolored line-art animal illustrations on pastedowns, including two giraffes with their heads poking through the roof of the Ark on lower pastedown.
Publisher:
  • New York ; London ; Paris : Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Co., Ltd, [approximately 1890].
Subject:
  • Children's poetry—19th century
  • Noah's ark—Juvenile literature
  • English language—Alphabet—Juvenile poetry
  • Animals—Pictorial works—Juvenile literature
  • Alphabet books
  • Printed wrappers (Binding)—19th century
  • Poetry
Range label:
  • Logical
  • Front cover
  • A B / Ape Bear
  • C D / Cat Dog
  • E F / Ewe Fox
  • G H / Goat Hare
  • I J K / Ibex Jaguar Kangaroo
  • L M / Lynx Marmoset
  • N O / Nylgau Otter
  • P Q / Porcupine Quagga
  • R S / Rabbit Squirrel
  • T U / Tasmanian Wolf Urchin
  • V W X / Viverine Cat Weasel X-cuse
  • Y Z / Yak Zebu
  • Back cover
Contributor:
  • Raphael Tuck & Sons
Alternative:
  • Noah's Ark ABC
Binding note:
  • Publisher's pale blue wrappers, chromolithographed upper showing animals boarding Noah's Ark, with the Ark in the background; title in large red decorative letters.
Location:
  • Special Collections Pams / Eng 19 / Box 067 6540219
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