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Philadelphia:: Published by Jacob Johnson; Sold by Benjamin Warner,, [ca. 1810]. First edition.. publisher's illustrated with flap, preserved in a custom folding box.. A fine example.. 12mo,. Illustrated from woodcuts cries illustrating 24 letters of the alphabet.. Rosenbach, "Early American Children's Books, p. 164: "The Cries illustrating the alphabet...are probably an early set of Newcastle or York Cries by Bewick."
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THE UNCLE'S PRESENT, A NEW BATTLEDOOR
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Philadelphia [PA]: Jacob Johnson, 1810. 12mo.; (4)pp. Illustrated. Titled on a flap of the first page. Original illustrated stiff wrappers; minor chipping at spine ends and flap-fold, but a fine fresh copy. First edition. Cover title: "READ AND BE WISE...Philadelphia: Sold by Benjamin Warner." Each letter of the alphbet is illustrated with one of the "Cries of London." WELCH 1363.
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- Publisher Jacob Johnson
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The Uncle's Present, A New Battledoor.
by JOHNSON, Jacob (publisher). [BEWICK, Thomas?]
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The Uncle's Present,: A New Battledoor.
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Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, sold by Benjamin Warner,, [c.1810-15]. An uncommon survival First and only edition. "The battledore was an offshoot of the hornbook, and was printed... for the double purpose it had to serve. In school it was used for teaching children the alphabet, whilst out of school it served as the battledore in the game of shuttlecock and battledore" (Rosenbach). This version of Battledore is believed to have been invented about 1746 in London "by Benjamin Collins, famous as the printer of the first edition of The Vicar of Wakefield at Salisbury" (ibid.). Although well represented institutionally in the US, according to Library Hub, Library Hub lists only one copy in the UK (Oxford). Small octavo. 4 pp. from a concertina-style folded sheet printed on one side, bound within original printed pictorial wallet-style green card wrappers, with alphabets and numbers to covers, wood-engraved illustrations of sheep to front cover, and horses to rear cover, "Come, Read and Learn" to fore-edge…
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