- R. Cruikshank's comic alphabet
- Title sort:
- R. Cruikshank's comic alphabet.
- Created:
- 1840-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Date:
- 1840
- Collections:
- Treasures of the Cotsen Collection
- ABC Books
- Edm rights:
- No Known Copyright
- Identifier:
- ark:/88435/wm117s33c
- Title:
- R. Cruikshank's comic alphabet
- Language:
- English
- Call number:
- Eng 19 1734
- Electronic Resource
- Extent:
- 12 leaves : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Format:
- Book
- Type:
- Engravings
- Alphabet books
- Publishers' advertisements
- Pictorial works
- Juvenile literature
- Description:
- "Sixpenny books, published by Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill"--Head of publisher's advertisement on lower cover.
- Date from Darton.
- 12 leaves, printed on one side only, first and last pasted down to wrappers.
- Illustrations: Two engraved, hand-colored, circular scenes within frames on each page, one illustrating each alphabet letter (except for "I" and "J" and "U" and "V," which both share illustrations).
- The letter B, "bound into boards," is illustrated by a man carrying advertising sandwitch boards, and the letter A, "anatomical researches," is illustrated by a grave-digger.
- Cotsen copy: Bookplate of Herbert Rivington Pyne on front pastedown.
- Publisher:
- London : Darton and Clark (Holborn Hill), [ca. 1840]
- Subject:
- Caricatures and cartoons—Great Britain
- English language—Alphabets—Pictorial works
- English language—Alphabets—Juvenile literature
- Engravings
- Alphabet books
- Publishers' advertisements
- Range label:
- Logical
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856
- Contributor:
- Darton & Clark
- Alternative:
- Comic alphabet
- Cruikshank's comic alphabet
- References:
- Darton, L. The Dartons, H314
- Binding note:
- Pub. stiff gray wrappers with pictorial design on upper cover, incorporating the 5 vowels, and publisher's advertisement for various children's titles on lower.
- Cotsen copy: Bound into later maroon half-morocco bds., with gray endpapers.
- Location:
- CTSN Eng 19 1734
- CTSN Electronic Resource
- ELF1 Eng 19 1734
- ELF1 Electronic Resource
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