Alphabet booksHere are entered books designed to display the letters of the alphabet, often with accompanying illustrations, sometimes to teach the alphabet and sometimes as vehicles for an illustrator's art, as well as works about such books. See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.
Broader terms:Narrower terms:Used for:- ABC books
- Abecedaria
- Alphabets (Primers)
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Filed under: Alphabet books Twenty-Six '76 (1976), by Johanna Drucker (page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org) A, Apple Pie, by Kate Greenaway 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)
Filed under: Alphabet books -- Great Britain
Filed under: Alphabet books -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literatureFiled under: Alphabet books -- Pictorial works
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Illustrated books 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 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 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)
Filed under: Illustrated books -- IndexesFiled under: Bestiaries
Filed under: Books of hours -- France -- ExhibitionsFiled under: Books of hours -- NetherlandsFiled under: Emblem books
Filed under: Emblem books, English -- History
Filed under: Emblem books, Spanish -- BibliographyFiled under: Illustrated books -- History -- 15th and 16th centuriesFiled under: Illustrated children's books 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)
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