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The Railway A.B.C.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Aunt Louisa's London toy books
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Warne's nursery literature
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Alphabet--Pictorial works.
- English language.
- English language--Alphabet--Juvenile literature.
- English language--Alphabet.
- Alphabet--Juvenile literature.
- Alphabet.
- Railroad trains--Juvenile literature.
- Railroad trains.
- Alphabet books--Specimens.
- Alphabet books.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (6 unnumbered leaves, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates) : color illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Railway ABC
- Aunt Louisa's railway A.B.C.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Frederick Warne and Company ; New York : Scribner, Welford, and Company, [approximately 1878]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Date from American publisher's imprint at back (Scribner and Welford imprint began in 1878 according to Princeton chronology).
- Title from extensive publisher's advertisements at back, under the banner of "Warne's nursery literature." Title appears under listing for "Aunt Louisa's London toy books" (9 titles listed)--and as a part of "Aunt Louisa's London picture book."
- "Price one shilling; or mounted with linen, two shillings"--At head of front wrapper.
- Text begins: "A is the Arch; underneath are the rails, / To carry the passengers, baggage, and mails."
- Illustrations: 4 separate wood-engraved, color-printed illustrations per page depicting the scene described in facing alphabet rhyme with Victorian railroad scenes and people, each with a black background and large red upper- and lower-case letters, signed at bottom of page by Kronheim.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 905311206
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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