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The child's instructor, or picture alphabet.

Title: The child's instructor, or picture alphabet.
Publication: Glasgow : Published and sold, wholesale, by Lumsden & Son, [not before 1811]

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KH 1811 Childs 15-517	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KH 1811 Childs 11-198	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

[32] p. : ill. (wood engravings); 10 cm.

Subject

Alphabets

Genre/Form

Juvenile literature – Scotland – Glasgow – 1811.

Note

At foot of title: Price Twopence.
Title page printed on verso of first leaf; first and last leaves pastedowns.
Wood engraving of printing press with "Hedderwick printer, Glasgow" on p. [31].
Although Hugo attributes illustrations to Bewick, Roscoe and Brimmell note several cuts copied after Bewick, possibly from his workshop.

Indexed In (note)

Hugo, T. Bewick
Roscoe & Brimmell. Lumsden

Binding (note)

Copy in *KH 1811 Childs 11-198 bound in printed blue paper wrappers decorated with allegorical figures and aphorisms. Copy in *KH 1811 Childs 15-517 bound in plain rose tinted wrappers, inscribed in ink, "Child's Instructor."

Call Number

*KH 1811 Childs 11-198

OCLC

16899023

Title

The child's instructor, or picture alphabet.

Imprint

Glasgow : Published and sold, wholesale, by Lumsden & Son, [not before 1811]

Indexed In:

Hugo, T. Bewick, 313.

Roscoe & Brimmell. Lumsden, 7.

Binding

Copy in *KH 1811 Childs 11-198 bound in printed blue paper wrappers decorated with allegorical figures and aphorisms. Copy in *KH 1811 Childs 15-517 bound in plain rose tinted wrappers, inscribed in ink, "Child's Instructor." NN

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James Lumsden & Son. Publisher

J. Hedderwick & Co. Printer

Children's Room Collection.

Research Call Number

*KH 1811 Childs 11-198

*KH 1811 Childs 15-517

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