Accession number
PML 88482
Published
London : Published by E. Wallis, Skinner Street, [ca. 1830]
Credit line
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.
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.
Description
27 cards : col. ill. (hand-colored engravings) ; 64 mm (in diam.) x 4 mm (thickness)
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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.)
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