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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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Additional Authors
  • Bobbett & Edmonds, engraver. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92045170
  • Doepler, Carl Emil, 1824-1905,
  • Lossing & Barritt, engraver. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93010446
  • Orr, Nathaniel,
  • Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books. NjP http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003086490
Description
192 p. : ill.; 17 cm.
Series Statement
Harper's picture books for the nursery, [v.1]
Alternative Title
  • Entertaining and instructive lessons in the use of language
  • Harper's picture books for the nursery
  • Learning to read
  • Learning to talk
  • Learning to think
Subject
  • Children > Language
  • Education of children
  • Picture books for children
Note
  • "In three volumes, each volume complete in itself"--added t.p.
  • Wood engravings by C.E. Doepler; R.S. Gilbert; Bobbett & Edmonds; N. Orr, T. Horton; Lossing & Barritt and others.
Indexed In (note)
  • Hamilton, S. American book illustrators (1968 ed.),
Provenance (note)
  • Inscribed : "Georgie from his Grandpapa Geo. Seaver."--in ink, on first fly-leaf.
Binding (note)
  • Original red, blind and gold stamped, pictorial, cloth binding.
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library