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Old Aunt Elspa's ABC : we'll soon learn to read, then--how clever we'll be / imagined & adorned by Joseph Crawhall.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection GR486 .C74 1978 Adelman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crawhall, Joseph, 1821-1896.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Alphabet.
- English language.
- Alphabet rhymes.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adelman, Jean (donor) (Adelman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [28] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Scolar Press, 1978.
- Notes:
- Includes biref introductory essay by Peter Stockham.
- "The partnership of the publisher Field & Tuer, and the Newcastle wood engraver Joseph Crawhall, produced some of the most striking illustrated books of the last half of the nineteenth century. The distinctive thick black lines of the cuts recall chapbook illustrations popular from the seventeenth until the earlier part of the nineteenth centuries; but Crawhill 'made it new' in a way which distinguishes him as a positive and real contributor to graphic art."
- Facsimile of edition first published in 1884 by Field & Tuer.
- Contains [3] pages of advertisements at end.
- Local Notes:
- Adelman Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Jean Adelman.
- ISBN:
- 0859675033 :
- OCLC:
- 5192961
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