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The Victoria Alphabet (back cover)
The Victoria Alphabet (back cover)
TitleThe Victoria Alphabet (back cover)
AuthorUnknown
PublisherGeorge Routledge & Company
Publisher LocationEngland--London
United States--New York--New York
Publication Datec. 1852-1858
PrinterUnknown
IllustratorUnknown
NotesHand colored illustrations on cloth.
Part of the Aunt Mavor's Picture Books for Little Children series.
Pages have blank versos.
Each letter of the alphabet is accompanied by an illustration and a short verse that refers to historical events and scenes from Victorian England.
The back cover advertises other books for children offered by George Routledge & Company.
Contextual NotesGeorge Routledge set up business as a retail bookseller with his brother-in-law W. H. Warne as assistant in 1836. W. H. Warne was made a partner in 1848 and, after his brother Frederick Warne was made a partner in 1851, the firm was renamed George Routledge & Company. The firm moved to Farringdon Street in 1852 and opened a New York branch in 1854. Robert Warne Routledge, George Routledge's son, entered the partnership in 1858 and the firm was renamed Routledge, Warne & Routledge.
Subjects (LCSH)Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) -- Juvenile literature; Alphabet -- Juvenile literature; Alphabet rhymes
CategoryAlphabet books
LanguageEnglish
Digital CollectionChildren's Historical Literature Collection
Digital ID NumberCHL0863
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division
Repository CollectionChildren's Historical Literature Collection PE1155.V53 1856
Object TypeBook
Physical Description[8] leaves: illustrated; 24.5 x 17.5 cm.
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from original book at 400-600 dpi in TIFF format using a ScanMaker 6800, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2008.
Exhibit ChecklistExhibit Checklist B.30
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