Midget A.B.C. Book., Linen
Cincinnati, O. Peter G. Thomson, 1885. Cloth. Copyrighted 1885 by Peter G. Thomson. 24mo (5 ½” x 4 1/8”); [8]pp; glazed cloth wrapper, chromolithographed portrait vignette of a young girl set inside decorative borders on the front, rear wrapper has a vignette of a young girl with a cat; two staple binding; an alphabet and the numbers one through zero are lithographed on the verso of the front wrapper; the alphabet is printed in black with three letters to each page excepting the last which is the recto of the rear wrapper; fine. Fine. Item #1776
This small ABC book with a bright and charming wrapper is decorated in the aesthetic style with large flowers at the corners and a stylized branching flower on the rear wrapper. Each letter is illustrated with a word from A Anchor through Z Zedu.
Price: $175.00