Accession number
PML 196230
Creator
Immel, Andrea.
Published
Princeton : Printed for the Cotsen Children's Library, at the sign of the giant book, MMXIV [2014]
Credit line
Gift of John Bidwell, 2016.
Notes
A limited edition of 200 copies, printed letterpress.
Copyright date 2014 on title page verso.
Colophon: Printed & bound by Robert LoMascolo, at the sign of the Grandiloquent Squirrel, Union Springs, New York. Designed by Mark Argetsinger, at the sign of the Key, Holyoke, Massachusetts
"To Lloyd E. Cotsen, on the occassion of his eighty-fifth birthday" --Dedication on page 5.
"Introduction" by Andrea Immel, on page 7, providing background on the Cotsen collection of 550 Newbery titles, the occasion of this book's creation, and the origin of the title (Jack Whirler being Dr. Johnson's nickname for John Newbery).
Copyright date 2014 on title page verso.
Colophon: Printed & bound by Robert LoMascolo, at the sign of the Grandiloquent Squirrel, Union Springs, New York. Designed by Mark Argetsinger, at the sign of the Key, Holyoke, Massachusetts
"To Lloyd E. Cotsen, on the occassion of his eighty-fifth birthday" --Dedication on page 5.
"Introduction" by Andrea Immel, on page 7, providing background on the Cotsen collection of 550 Newbery titles, the occasion of this book's creation, and the origin of the title (Jack Whirler being Dr. Johnson's nickname for John Newbery).
Description
63 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary
An alphabet book, using 2 illustrative reproductions of Newbery blocks for each alphabet letter, with facing text providing context about the illustration and the work from which it comes, followed by a glossary of terms, and reprinting of an ABC text passage from "Giles Gingerbread"; original illustrations by Bewick and others.
Binding
Publisher's stiff white wrappers, both upper and lower with blue-printed illustrations depicting children playing out-of-doors (from The lilliputian auction).
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