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The landscape alphabet.

Accession number
PML 86071
Creator
E. K.
Published
London ; Paris : Lithographed and published by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet, 1830.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1992.
Notes
A pictorial alphabet comprised of 26 b&w lithographic illustrations, probably after designs by miniature painter Emma Eleanora Kendrick. Cf. Twyman.
Acquired by the library along with a set of 33 original pen and ink drawings for "The landscape alphabet" (PML 86069.1-33), 19 of which are initialed "E.K." [i.e. Emma Eleanora Kendrick?] within the design; and a copy of the published deck of 26 alphabet cards featuring the same designs as those comprising the alphabet in volume form, entitled: The Landscape alphabet, or, Introduction to belles lettres (London ; Paris : Engelmann, Graf, Coindet, 1830) (PML 86070).
Description
[1] leaf, [26] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. (lithograph) ; 11 x 16 cm.
Provenance
Purchased from The Book Block, Aug. 1992.
Binding
Original green cloth.
Classification
Department