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• Illustrated books -- History -- 15th and 16th centuries
• Illustrated children's books
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• 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, by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)

• A Medieval Mirror: Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1324-1500 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by Adrian Wilson and Joyce Lancaster Wilson (illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• A Catalogue of Books Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson (1916), by Grolier Club
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• English Coloured Books, by Martin Hardie (page images at CMU)

• Early Illustrated Books: A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries (third edition; New York: Empire State Book Company, 1927), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at CMU)

• An A B C, for Baby Patriots (London: Dean and Son, 1899), by Mrs. Ernest Ames (page images at Florida)

• 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)

• The Modern ABC Book (New York: John Day Co., 1930), by C. B. Falls (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)
• Baby's ABC Book (Akron, OH et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co., ca. 1904) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Mavor's Illustrated Primer, With Three Hundred and Fifty Illustrations (London: F. Warne and Co., ca. 1870), by William Fordyce Mavor (page images at Princeton)

• The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts (New York: Putnam, 1960), ed. by T. H. White (page images at Wisconsin)
• Physiologus: A Metrical Bestiary of Twelve Chapters, by Episcopus Theobaldus, trans. by Alan Wood Rendell (PDF files at bestiary.ca)

• The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2008), by Timothy Husband, contrib. by Margaret Lawson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), by Kathryn M. Rudy (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Book of Emblems (in Latin and English), by Andrea Alciati (illustrated HTML with commentary at mun.ca)

• Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of Their Similarities of Thought and Expression; Preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature Down to A. D. 1616 (London: Trübner and Co., 1870), by Henry Green (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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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