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• Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained; With an Account of the Egyptian Priests, Their Classes, Initiation, and Sacrifices (in Arabic and English; London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1806), by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Waḥshīyah, trans. by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Constructed Roman Alphabet: A Geometric Analysis of the Roman Alphabet, Including the Greek Characters and the Arabic Numerals, by David Lance Goines (illustrated HTML at goines.net)
• The One Primeval Language: Traced Experimentally Through Ancient Inscriptions in Alphabetic Characters of Lost Powers From the Four Continents (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1852-1854), by Charles Forster (page images at HathiTrust)

• An A. B. C. of Every-Day People, Good, Bad and Indifferent (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1902), by G. E. Farrow, illust. by John Hassall (page images at Princeton)
• An Alphabet Allegorical, Alliterative and Amusing, Appreciable at All Ages (London: Effingham Wilson, 1871), by L. J Hill (page images at Princeton)

• The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0, by Unicode Consortium (HTML at unicode.org)

• ABC: An Alphabet Written and Pictured by Mrs. Arthur Gaskin (London: E. Mathews; Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1895), by Georgie Gaskin (page images at Princeton)
• ABC Fun (Los Angeles: Broadway Department Store, ca. 1910) (page images at Princeton)
• ABC Jingles (Syracuse, NY: G.C. Hanford Mfg. Co, 1920), by G.C. Hanford Mfg. Co (page images at Princeton)
• The Absurd ABC (London and New York: John Lane, c1874), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An Alphabet of Fairy Tales (London: Gale and Polden, Ltd., 1920), by Doris Pailthorpe (page images at Princeton)
• Arthur's Book of Alphabets (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, n.d.) (page images at Princeton)
• Babes of the Empire: An Alphabet for Young England (London: W. Heinemann, 1902), by Thomas Stevens, illust. by A. H. Collins (page images at Princeton)
• The Bandit Bunny Alphabet and Other Stories (1901), by Charles M. Snyder, illust. by George Reiter Brill (page images at Princeton)
• Comic Animals and Their Adventures; With Alphabet and Rhymes (ca. 1880), illust. by George H. Thompson and Louis Wain (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Denslow's ABC Book (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1903), by W. W. Denslow (page images at Princeton)
• Edward Lear's ABC (London: H. Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1913), by Edward Lear (page images at Princeton)
• Fairy A B C (New York: McLoughlin Bros, ca. 1880) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Footsteps on the Road to Learning: or, The Alphabet in Rhyme (New Haven: S. Babcock, 1850) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Ladder to Learning (Albany: R. H. Pease, 1852), by Miss Lovechild (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Moral Alphabet (London: E. Arnold, 1899), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Naval Alphabet (London: Sands and Co., ca. 1901), by John Hassall (page images at Princeton)
• Pumpkin Pie ABC Book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1900) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Wright's Alphabet Book (London: Wright's Coal Tar Soap, ca. 1910) (page images at Princeton)
• Peter Piper's Playmates (Chicago: A. Whitman and Co., c1930), illust. by Eleanore Mineah Hubbard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
• An A. B. C. of Every-Day People, Good, Bad and Indifferent (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1902), by G. E. Farrow, illust. by John Hassall (page images at Princeton)
• The Alphabet of Goody Two Shoes: By Learning Which She Soon Got Rich (London: Printed For J. Harris and Son, 1820) (page images at Princeton)
• The Bicycle ABC (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1898), by I. Noys Lewis (page images at Princeton)
• The Children of Many Nations and the ABC (Rochester, NY: Stecher Lith. Co., 1916), by Carolyn S. Hodgman, illust. by William F. Stecher (page images at Princeton)
• The Child's Alphabet, Emblematically Described and Embellished by Twenty-Four Pictures, Brought Into Easy Verse, for the Tender Capacities of Young Readers: The Whole Contrived to Allure Children Into the Love of Learning (Glasgow: Printed by J. And M. Robertson, 1805) (page images at Princeton)
• The Invited Alphabet: or, Address of A To B Containing His Friendly Proposal for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children (London: B. Tabart and Co., 1809), by R. R., illust. by Charles Knight (page images at Princeton)
• The Jolly Adventures of Billy Van and Betty Camp (Indianapolis: Van Camp Products Co., c1923), by Edward M. Carney, illust. by Carl Mueller
  • page images at Princeton
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Jolly Animal ABC (New York: McLoughin Bros., ca. 1890) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Keith ABC for Children (Boston: Publicity Department, Keith's Theatre, 1906), by James F. McNally, contrib. by B. F. Keith, illust. by Wallace Goldsmith (page images at Princeton)
• Laugh and Learn ABC Book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1900) (page images at Princeton)
• Laughable Lyrics: A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, Etc., by Edward Lear (illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org)
• The Mother's Picture Alphabet (London: S. W. Partridge and Co., ca. 1887) (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• Old Aunt Elspa's ABC: We'll Soon Learn To Read, Then How Clever We'll Be (London: Field and Tuer; E.C. Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1884), by Joseph Crawhall (page images at Princeton)
• Take Your Choice! or, A Peep at my Playmates (London: Printed for J. Harris and Son, 1822), by Pat Playful (page images at Princeton)
• The Teddy Bear ABC (Boston and New York: H.M. Caldwell Co., c1907), by Laura Rinkle Johnson, illust. by Margaret Landers Sanford (page images at Princeton)
• Tom Thumb's Alphabet (London: W. Darton and Son, ca. 1836) (page images at Princeton)
• The Union ABC (Boston: Degen, Estes, and Co., ca. 1864) (page images at Princeton)
• ABC Health Cards (New York: American Child Health Association, 1915) (page images at Princeton)
• Goldfish at School: or, The Alphabet of Frank the Fisherman (London: Hodgson and Co., 1823) (page images at Princeton)
• The Golfer's Alphabet (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1899), by Van Tassel Sutphen, illust. by A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Union Label Alphabet For Little and Big Children (Chicago: Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America, 1905), by Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America (page images at Princeton)
• An A B C, for Baby Patriots (London: Dean and Son, 1899), by Mrs. Ernest Ames (page images at Florida)

• Results of the 2001 Kerak Plateau Early Bronze Age Survey; Two Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from the Wadi el-Ḥôl (published as v.59 of Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research; c2005), by Meredith S. Chesson, Cheryl Makarewicz, Ian Kuijt, Charlotte M. Whiting, John Coleman Darnell, F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, Marilyn J. Lundberg, P. Kyle McCarter, and Bruce Zuckerman, contrib. by Colleen Darnell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained; With an Account of the Egyptian Priests, Their Classes, Initiation, and Sacrifices (in Arabic and English; London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1806), by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Waḥshīyah, trans. by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Book of Alphabets, For Use in Schools (Boston: Ginn and Co., c1908), by H. W. Shaylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Invited Alphabet: or, Address of A To B Containing His Friendly Proposal for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children (London: B. Tabart and Co., 1809), by R. R., illust. by Charles Knight (page images at Princeton)
• The New Zanerian Alphabets: An Instructor in Roundhand, Engrossing, Designing, Etc. (Columbus: Zaner and Bloser, c1900), by C. P. Zaner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prang's Standard Alphabets (revised edition; Boston: L. Prang and Co., c1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Applied Lettering and Design (New York: Watson-Guptill, c1949), by Rand Holub (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of Penmanship (Columbus: Zaner-Bloser Co., 1921), by C. C. Canan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• La Operina (in Italian, with English translation and commentary), by Ludovico degli Arrighi, ed. by Gunnlaugur S. E. Briem (zipped PDF at operina.com)
• Studies in Pen Art (1914), by William Edward Dennis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ames' Guide to Self Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship (1894), by Daniel T. Ames (multiple formats at archive.org)

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