An alphabet of old friends ; and, the absurd ABC

Date:

1981.

Author:

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH C892 A57 1981 LOCAL

Publisher:

Metropolitan Museum of Art and Thames and Hudson

ISBN:

0870992724

Abstract:

In the first of these two volumes, the letters of the alphabet are presented through illustrated traditional nursery rhymes and in the second, they are introduced with humorous illustrations and verses.

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:

Library's copy has green illustrations on front and back lining papers. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

1981 Thames and Hudson, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, reprint of two toy books first published by George Routledge in 1874 [the first reprinted from the Routledge edition, the second from the 1895 reprint edition by John Lane]

Subjects:

Alphabet rhymes, Nursery rhymes, Children's poetry, Alphabet, Nursery rhymes, Alphabet rhymes, Children's poetry, and Nursery rhymes

Genres/Forms:

Alphabet books, Children's poetry, Alphabet books. lcgft, Nursery rhymes. lcgft, Alphabet rhymes Juvenile literature, Poetry, Juvenile works, Alphabet rhymes, Nursery rhymes, Alphabet rhymes. lcgft, and Children's poetry. lcgft