100 NINETEENTH~CENTURY RHYMING ALPHABETS In English ~ From The Library Of Ruth M. Baldwin

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blue, dark blue & gilt illustrated (children on cover) full cloth hardcover 4to ~ 4º (quarto ~ 9"x11"). large "coffee table" book, international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. tiny bit of rubbing at spine bottom. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in fine cond. minor rubbing . nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (nap). illustrated title pg. x+296p. glossy pages throughout. every page illustrated, mostly in b&w with 32 pages in full glossy color. poetry. english literature. nursery rhymes. fairy tales. folklore. ~ Charming and interesting examples of children's literature from one of the most complete collections of its kind. Throughout the years Ruth M. Baldwin has never ceased to be amazed at the endless quantity and variety of children's books published in English during the last century. Some scholars and collectors feel that there may well have been as many as a quarter million volumes. Miss Baldwin's library, which is still growing at the rate of more than 1,000 volumes a year, may contain 35,000 different titles and editions ~ all before 1900 and mostly from the nineteenth century. This library is probably unique in its equal representation of American and English children's books. While one cannot be certain of the total number of rhyming alphabets published in the past century, the hundred alphabets in this volume represent but a small portion of those in Ruth Baldwin's library. Although most of the alphabets reproduced here were published in the early part of the latter half of the nineteenth century, they well represent as a whole this first era of large~scale children's book publishing. Most of the alphabets included are anonymous, but some were illustrated~and in certain cases written as well ~ by such famous artists and illustrators as Greenaway, Walter Crane, and Edward Lear. No effort has been made to establish exact dates of publication, much less the edition or chronological sequence since to do so properly would be almost impossible and beyond the scope of this book. Because of the anonymous nature of most of the material in this book, the alphabets have been grouped thematically under such topics as children's names, nature, animals, farm life, gardening and flowers, trades, goodness and scripture, and travel. Variations on three classic alphabets ~"A Was an Apple Pie," "A Was an Angler," and "A Was an Archer" ~which go back many centuries in the oral tradition, have been arranged together. There are also miscellaneous alphabets with a single thought for each letter as well as those where each letter stands for many things. Most remarkable, perhaps, is the fact that neither the alphabets nor their illustrations were reprinted from one book to anther with the same frequency as the stories were. Bibliophiles, students of children's literature, and antiquarians generally will find th is book of books interesting and delightful.

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100 NINETEENTH~CENTURY RHYMING ALPHABETS In English ~ From The Library Of Ruth M. Baldwin

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Carbondale and Edwardsville IL. 1972. Southern Illinois Univ. Press / Feffer & Simons Inc. , London & Amsterdam

Fecha de publicación

1972

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ISBN 10

0809305097

ISBN 13

9780809305094

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• english literature
• fairy tales
• poetry

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