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(CHILDREN’S BOOKS.) Welsh, [Mary Ann Wilson].
The Musical Alphabet.
Sheet music with 31 lithographic illustrations. [4] pages. Folio, 13 x 9
1
/
4
inches, in early
patterned wrappers with partial closed tear along fold, minor wear; contents clean and crisp.
New York: E.S. Mesier, 28 Wall Street, circa 1830
[1,000/1,500]
Each letter is illustrated by one or more vignettes. Concludes with the couplet “Now I have
sung the alphabet through / All that I ask is a kiss from you.” One copy in OCLC. The
similarly scarce London edition is listed in Osborne, page 689.
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(CHILDREN’S BOOKS.) [Johnson, Richard.]
The Most Illustrious and
Renowned History of the Seven Champions of Christendom.
143 pages. 24mo,
original boards with early paper cover, moderate wear; minor dampstaining; early owners’
inscriptions on free endpapers.
Baltimore: Bonsal and Niles, circa 1804
[150/250]
Stated 17th edition. Not in Rosenbach, Shaw & Shoemaker, or Welch. The 18th edition by
the same publishers, 1804, appears as Rosenbach 295 and Welch 668.4.
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(CHILDREN’S BOOKS.)
The Uncle’s Present, a New Battledoor.
Engraved
illustration and Cry of London for each letter of the alphabet. 4 pages including paste-
downs. Small 8vo with folding title flap and cover woodcut by Anderson; minor wear,
slight wrinkle on center pages. Rosenbach 428; Welch 1363.
Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, [1810]
[250/350]
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