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187017487<p>New York: McLoughlin Bros. n.d. ca. 1870 First edition. The illustrations seem to be the same as those that appear in the McLoughlin children's book Major's Alphabet 1870. Original wooden box with color-printed paper onlay. Two wooden knobs on the side of the box allow readers to turn through the scroll. Box 7 x 7 x 1 " containing paper scroll approx. 5" wide. . Scroll is color-printed with twenty-six vignettes one for each letter of the alphabet with accompanying verse "B is for Benjamin making a bow". Illustrated by William Momberger. Some rubbing to edges and soiling. Old crack to box lid repaired with adhesive. Bottom of box reinforced with tape at two corners. A child's old pencil scribbles to bottom. Scroll itself is clean and bright. A very good copy. Companies like McLoughlin Bros. in New York and Milton Bradley in Massachusetts employed creative formats for alphabet books during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The present item is an unusual book that introduces an element of tactile play to learning the alphabet. While McLoughlin Milton Bradley and other companies were distributing these alphabet books the Educational Toy Manufacturing Company also in Massachusetts experimented with a movable metal multiplication tool "Consul the Educated Monkey" and British company H.G. Clarke released their "Magic Toymaker" booklet which could be assembled into a paper puppet. These books utilized the concept of learning through play a staple of early childhood education since Friedrich Froebel innovated the kindergarten in early nineteenth century.</p> McLoughlin Bros.,
1900102932<p>No place no date c. 1900. Two hand-drawn alphabet series A to Z with individual letters each initial c. 6 x 6 cm. Drawn in ink on paper. Unsigned. Both series are different some initials are mirrored. Held in a custom-made paper box covered with marbled paper. a few letters slightly damaged but expertly restored. Each letter in the first series shows one putti with a musical instrument 25 cards J not present. Each letter for the second series shows two or more children amusing themselves with games 26 cards.</p><p>Charming alphabet cards with playing children and musical angels.</p>
19431699691943. ALPHABET. ABÉCÉDAIRE du Marechal Petain. 28 ff. illustrated throughout. Square 8vo 140 x 140 mm. original illustrated wrappers in a new linen box with black label. n.p.: Bureau de Documentation du Chef de l'Etat 1943. One of the strange alphabets but a perfect insight into the creation of Petain as saviour of France. A rare little book. OCLC lists just 3 copies all in France. unknown
32228Amsterdam: Gebrodeders van Arum n.d. c.1825 . 16mo. hand-coloured engraved myriorama alphabet comprising 24 pictorial cards with numbers beneath the pictures 1-24 and A-Z in upper and lower case to each card. The cards are housed in a card slipcase with decorative floral paper covering and printed paper label; occasional light foxing to some cards light wear to extremities of the slipcase with loss to lower portion and upper corner of the printed title label light loss to marbled paper covering of case in a couple of places a very good example of this rare set. “An exceptional early Picture Alphabet that completely focused on both extramural reading and fun for the child.” Buijnsters :Lust En Leering. History of the Dutch children's book in the nineteenth century. Myriorama or ‘Many Thousand Views’ consist of numerous cards depicting fragments or segments of landscapes people and buildings that can be arranged in a multitude of different combinations allowing a child to create a variety of imaginary landscapes. This ‘entertainment’ for ‘young ladies and gentlemen’ originated in France but was quickly adopted in other European countries. From wikipedia: Myriorama originally meant a set of illustrated cards which 19th century children could arrange and re-arrange forming different pictures. Later in the century the name was also applied to shows using a sequence of impressive visual effects to entertain and inform an audience. The word myriorama was invented to mean myriad pictures following the model of panorama diorama cosmorama and other novelties. These were all part of a wider interest in viewing landscape as panorama and in new ways of presenting "spectacular" scenes. The early myrioramas were cards with people buildings and other images on compatible backgrounds and could be laid out in any order allowing a child to create a variety of imaginary landscapes. Jean-Pierre Brès a French children's writer published an early version which he described as a polyoptic picture tableau polyoptique in the early 19th century and John Clark of London took up the idea and designed a set of cards he called a myriorama. Clark's "second series" myriorama an "Italian landscape" was produced in 1824 the same year as a similar set of English cards called a panoramacopia created by drawing teacher T.T.Dales. Amsterdam: Gebrodeders van Arum, n.d. (c.1825) unknown
BB078<p>ABC</p><p><b>ERNI</b> Hans 1909–2015:</p><p><b><i>Alphabet Anthropomorph</i></b> <i>Anthropomorphic Alphabet</i>. </p><p>Luzern Michael Duplain and Nicolas Chabloz Printers 1998-1999. </p><p>With 26 engravings in black and 24 printed in color illustrating letters of the alphabet formed by entwined nudes. Pages bound in leporello-style pages with printed letterpress by Roland Meuter Ascona. </p><p>Two volumes bound in complimentary two-color inlay leather packaged with the actual copperplate for printing Letter "C" engraved at the Atelier de Talle-Douce Pietro Sarto St-Prex the whole encased in protective leather and cloth clamshell box Numbered and Signed by the artist in limited edition # 3/26 C</p><p>Additional tirage: 5 copies A-E plus 3 artist copies.</p> Michael Duplain and Nicolas Chabloz, Printers hardcover
18501716331850. ALPHABET. ALPHABET OF EXERCISES. Alphabet gymnastique. 72 pp. including 4 b&w plates of engravings in intaglio. 158 x 102 mm. red morocco boards. Paris: Locard-Davi 1850. A delightful alphabet with charming plates showing children participating in various passtimes noy all of them seeming to require physical energy.A few marginal paper repairs but overall a pleasing copy of a very rare book. OCLC lists Southern Mississippi and 3 in Europe hardcover
