The railway A.B.C. (front cover)

The railway A.B.C. (front cover)

English language -- Alphabet -- Pictorial works, English language -- Alphabet -- Juvenile literature, Alphabet -- Juvenile literature, Railroad trains -- Juvenile literature, Alphabet books -- Specimens

Illustrations are color prints. All illustration pages signed at bottom of page by Kronheim & Co . Series: Warne's nursery literature. Aunt Louisa's London toy books.; Warne's nursery literature. Publisher's yellow color-printed wrappers, first and final leaves pasted down to wrapper/cover. "Price one shilling; or mounted with linen, two shillings"--At head of front wrapper . This is an ABC book with verse and illustrations related to the railway in Victorian England. The book consists of pages with rhyming verse facing pages with color-printed illustrations (4 separate color-printed illustrations per illustration page), which depict the scenes described on the verse pages . Title and series in blue, black, and red fairground-style letters within a decorated patterned border of the same colors.

[6] leaves, [6] leaves of plates : color illustrations , 27 cm.

Valentine, Laura B.J., 1814-1899

Kronheim & Co.

University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections

Frederick Warne & Co.

England--London

ca. 1878

Mike Hajostek

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Children's Historical Literature Collection PE1155 .R35 1878