The Picture alphabet : being a complete set of large and small letters : embellished with twenty-six cuts, one adapted to each letter, and a poetical description of each cut.

Accession number

PML 81392

Published

Brentford [London] : Printed by P. Norbury, nearly opposite the Market-Place, and sold by all booksellers in town and country, [179-?].

Credit line

Gift of Elisabeth Ball, 1965.

Notes

At foot of t.p.:Price one penny.
Date suggested by typography.
Several cuts same as those used in earlier ed. (London : H. Turpin, ca. 1774-1789.

Description

31. [1] p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 11 cm

Provenance

From the C.T. Owen and Elisabeth Ball collections.

Binding

Orange morocco, gilt for Owen; original orange pictorial printed wrappers bound in.

Classification

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