Item #17244 Aunt Mayflower’s Alphabet. Children's books.
Aunt Mayflower’s Alphabet
Aunt Mayflower’s Alphabet
Aunt Mayflower’s Alphabet

Aunt Mayflower’s Alphabet

New York: McLoughlin Bros. [ca. 1880]. First edition. Printed in color throughout with the letters of the alphabet and corresponding color-printed engraved vignettes. Six pages do not have illustrations and are printed with vocabulary words organized into ten lessons (incorrectly numbered two through eleven rather than one through ten). Minor dust soiling and some toning inside. Spine coming apart but holding. A very good, bright copy of a fragile item that is scarce in commerce. Publisher’s color-printed paper self-wrappers. Back cover with McLoughlin Bros. ads. 6 x 10 in. [12] pp. Item #17244

Each letter is accompanied by a woodcut, a few vocabulary words, and two lines of verse. For example, the letter Y is paired with the vocabulary words “Youth, Yew, and Yonder” and the lines “Youth lies beneath a yew, / That within the churchyard grew.” The lessons require students to read lists of simple words aloud. The words rhyme or otherwise share sounds between them, so students could practice identifying and pronouncing similar sounds.

Price: $300.00

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