Accession number
PML 83777
Published
London : Published by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery St., Bishopsgate, [1852?]
Notes
Title from front wrapper; imprint from verso of leaf [1]; imprint from front wrapper; caption title reads: The spring of knowledge; or the alpabet illustrated.
Front wrapper includes a list of twelve books "published uniformly with this" set in two columns.
In verse; text begins: "A stands for acorn, that grows on a tree / B for a butterfly, lovely to see / C for a castle, most grand to behold ..."
Illustrations are hand colored.
Variant wrapper colors reported, including pink, green and yellow.
Date of publication from inscription in Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro copy.
Front wrapper includes a list of twelve books "published uniformly with this" set in two columns.
In verse; text begins: "A stands for acorn, that grows on a tree / B for a butterfly, lovely to see / C for a castle, most grand to behold ..."
Illustrations are hand colored.
Variant wrapper colors reported, including pink, green and yellow.
Date of publication from inscription in Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro copy.
Description
8 unnumbered leaves : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Binding
19th-century dark blue morocco, gilt-tooled, with yellow publisher's wrappers bound in.
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