Accession number:
PML 88482
Published:
London : Published by E. Wallis, Skinner Street, [ca. 1830]
Description:
27 cards : col. ill. (hand-colored engravings) ; 64 mm (in diam.) x 4 mm (thickness)
Credit:
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes:
Title from label on container.
Twenty-four circular cards with a capital letter of the alphabet on one side and an engraved, hand-colored vignette of an item and the corresponding letter on the other side (e.g. A. Ark) ; three circular cards without vignettes: two with the alphabet in lower case: a-m and n-z, and one with the entire alphabet, lower case and capital letters in italics.
Publication date inferred from publisher's address and from bookseller's sticker pasted to bottom of container.
Binding:
In publisher's cylindrical wooden container with a printed title paper-label on the front, a multicolored, engraved portrait of grandmother pasted on lid, and a label with a printed alphabet in capital letters pasted to the bottom; 17 cm (height) 8 cm (diam.)
Provenance:
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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