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Learning to talk, or, Entertaining and instructive lessons in the use of language

Title: Learning to talk, or, Entertaining and instructive lessons in the use of language / by Jacob Abbott ; illustrated with one hundred and seventy engravings.
Author: Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879.
Publication: New York : Harper & Brothers, 1855.

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Description

x, [1], 12-192 p. : ill.; 17 cm.

Series Statement

Harper's picture books for the nursery ; [1]

Alternative Title

Learning to talk
Entertaining and instructive lessons in the use of language

Subject

Genre/Form

Primers (Instructional books) – 1855.
Juvenile literature – New York (State) – New York – 1855.

Note

Wood-engravings signed by Lossing and Barritt; Bobbett and Edmonds; Carl Emil Doepler; Horton; Gilbert; and Richardson and Cox.

Indexed In (note)

Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.)

Provenance (note)

Inscribed: in ink on upper free end leaf, "Lorrisa D. Ward, A Happy New York 1861."

Binding (note)

Bound in publisher's red cloth boards wtih gilt stamped cover and spine.

Call Number

*KH 1855 Abbott 12-181

OCLC

4634211

Author

Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879.

Title

Learning to talk, or, Entertaining and instructive lessons in the use of language / by Jacob Abbott ; illustrated with one hundred and seventy engravings.

Imprint

New York : Harper & Brothers, 1855.

Series

Harper's picture books for the nursery ; [1]

Indexed In:

Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.), 703

Provenance

Inscribed: in ink on upper free end leaf, "Lorrisa D. Ward, A Happy New York 1861." NN

Binding

Bound in publisher's red cloth boards wtih gilt stamped cover and spine. NN

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Added Author

Gilbert, John, 1817-1897. Illustrator

Doepler, Carl Emil, 1824-1905. Illustrator

Lossing, Benson J. (Benson John), 1813-1891. Engraver

Barritt, William, approximately 1822- Engraver

Richardson, James H. Engraver

Cox, Thomas, approximately 1831- Engraver

Harper & Brothers. Publisher

Children's Room Collection.

Research Call Number

*KH 1855 Abbott 12-181

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