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• When Phantasie Takes Flight: The Art and Imagination of Arthur Rackham (online version of U-Florida exhibit catalog; ca. 2014), ed. by Suzan A. Alteri and John Ingram (illustrated HTML at Florida)
• Little Ann and Other Poems (London: George Routledge and Sons, ca. 1883), by Jane Taylor, Ann Taylor, and Adelaide O'Keefe, illust. by Kate Greenaway (page images at LOC)
• Little Ann and Other Poems (annotated based on the first edition (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883)), by Jane Taylor, Ann Taylor, and Adelaide O'Keefe, illust. by Kate Greenaway (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by Leonard S. Marcus (PDF with commentary at Minnesota; 643 MB)

• The Child and His Picture Book: A Discussion of the Preferences of the Nursery Child (Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1933), by Larry Freeman and Ruth S. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Alphabet; And, Easy Words of One, Two, and Three Syllables (Cobb Toys third series #1; Newark, NJ: B. Olds, 1835), by Lyman Cobb (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Children's Object Book (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., n.d.) (page images at LOC)
• A Pleasing Toy for Children (Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1843)
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Riddle Book, For the Use of Children (Concord, NH: R. Merrill, 1843)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Short History of Birds and Beasts, for the Amusement and Instruction Of Children: Adorned with Cuts (ca. 1830), illust. by John Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Twelve Magic Changelings (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1907), by M. A. Glen (page images at LOC)
• The Adventures of Mother Hubbard and Her Dog (Albany: R. H. Pease, ca. 1850), contrib. by Sarah Catherine Martin (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Bad Mrs. Ginger (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1902), by Honor C. Appleton (page images at childrenslibrary.org)
• Dumpy Proverbs (Dumpy Books for Children #24; London: Grant Richards, 1903), by Honor C. Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Object Teacher (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1884), illust. by Charles J. Howard (page images at Florida)
• Old Dame Trot and Her Comical Cat (London: S. Marks and Sons, 1859)
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple files at archive.org
• Pictures and Songs for Little Children (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1886)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Queerie Queers, With Hands, Wings and Claws (Buffalo, NY: J. D. Larkin, 1885), by Palmer Cox, contrib. by Tom Tit, Professor Hoffmann, and Clara Doty Bates, illust. by H. R. Millar, A. B. Frost, and Louis Poyet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Riddle Book, for Silent Reading (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally and Co., c1925), by Lily Lee Dootson, illust. by Clarence Biers (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The World Turned Upside Down: or, No News, and Strange News (York: J. Kendrew, ca. 1820)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Circus Procession (New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1888)
  • page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text and page images
• Joh. Amos Comenii Orbis Sensualium Pictus: Hoc Est, Omnium Principalium in Mundo Rerum, et in Vita Actionum, Pictura et Nomenclatura; Joh. Amos Comenius's Visible World, or, a Nomenclature, and Pictures of All the Chief Things That Are in the World, and of Men's Employments Therein (first American edition, based on the 12th London edition, in English and Latin; New York: T. and J. Swords, 1810), by Johann Amos Comenius, trans. by Charles Hoole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis Sensualium Pictus: Hoc Est, Omnium Principalium in Mundo Rerum, et in Vita Actionum, Pictura et Nomenclatura; Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible World: or, a Nomenclature and Pictures of the Chief Things That Are in the World, and of Mens Employments Therein (in English and Latin; London: J. Sprint, 1705), by Johann Amos Comenius, trans. by Charles Hoole (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Orbis Pictus of John Amos Comenius (Syracuse, NY: C. W. Bardeen, 1887), by Johann Amos Comenius, ed. by C. W. Bardeen, trans. by Charles Hoole
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Animal Land, Where There Are No People (second edition; London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1897), by Sybil Corbet and Katharine Corbet, contrib. by Andrew Lang (page images at ufl.edu)
• Two Teaparties (New York et al.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., c1882), by Rosalie Vanderwater, illust. by Wilson De Meza (page images at Florida)

• A Picture Book, for Little Children (Philadelphia: Kimber and Conrad, ca. 1812) (illustrated HTML and page images at merrycoz.org)
• The Little Traveller (New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1870) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible: or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, Represented With Emblematical Figures, for the Amusement of Youth (10th edition; London: Printed for T. Hodgson, 1791)
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Prints and Books: Informal Papers (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926), by William Mills Ivins (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Iconography of Don Quixote, 1605-1895 (London: Printed for the author at the University Press, Aberdeen, 1895), by Henry Spencer Ashbee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects (Londen: Methuen and Co., 1902), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at CMU)
• The Library (London: Macmillan, 1881), by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson and W. J. Loftie, illust. by J. J. Wild
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New (third edition; London and New York: G. Bell and Sons, 1905), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• General Index to Illustrations: 22000 Selected References in All Fields Exclusive of Nature (Boston: F. W. Faxon Co., 1931), by Jessie Croft Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Twenty-Six '76 (1976), by Johanna Drucker (page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)
• A, Apple Pie, by Kate Greenaway
  • page images and HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at Princeton
• A, Apple Pie (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., 1886), by Kate Greenaway (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An Alphabet of Animals (London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Leicester, UK: Winks and Son, 1865) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• Barnum and Jumbo's ABC (London and New York: F. Warne, ca. 1882) (page images at Princeton)
• A Bizarre Company (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1913), by G. M. C. Fry (page images at Princeton)
• Bowden's A.B.C. Book of India (Mumbai: A. C. Bowden, ca. 1900), by Arthur Charles Bowden (page images at Princeton)
• The Children's Moral Alphabet (Kettering, UK: J.H. Waddington, 1879) (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)
• Grandmama Goodsoul's ABC of Eatables (London: Read, Brooks and Co., ca. 1880), by Brooks & Co. Read (page images at Princeton)
• The History of A Apple Pie (London: G. Routledge and Co., ca. 1858) (page images at Princeton)
• An Illustration of Osbourne's Pictorial Alphabet (London: C. Osbourne and Messrs. Ackerman and Co., 1835), by Charles Osbourne (page images at Princeton)
• The Mother's Picture Alphabet (London: S. W. Partridge and Co., ca. 1887) (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Picture Alphabet (1850), by Oliver Spafford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Scripture Alphabet for Children (London: J. Harris, 1824) (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)
• Tom Thumb's Alphabet (London: W. Darton and Son, ca. 1836) (page images at Princeton)
• The Twins' A B C (London: Liberty and Co., and Lawrence and Bullen, 1904), by Olga C. Morgan, illust. by Edmund Evans (page images at Princeton)
• The Twins' A B C (London: Liberty and Co., ca. 1904), by Olga C. Morgan, illust. by Edmund Evans (PDF at Toronto Public Library)
• The Adventures of ABC (London et al.: R. Tuck and Sons, 1900) (page images at Princeton)
• The Alphabet; And, Easy Words of One, Two, and Three Syllables (Cobb Toys third series #1; Newark, NJ: B. Olds, 1835), by Lyman Cobb (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Childs First Book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1875) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Goldfish at School: or, The Alphabet of Frank the Fisherman (London: Hodgson and Co., 1823) (page images at Princeton)
• R. Cruikshank's Comic Alphabet (London: Darton and Clark, ca. 1840), by Robert Cruikshank (page images at Princeton)
• The World at Home ABC: An Alphabet of Nations (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1903), by Will Gibbons (page images at Princeton)
• Goop Tales Alphabetically Told (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1904), by Gelett Burgess (page images at Princeton)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.