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• Author/Creator:Hill, L. J., author, artist.
  
• Title:An alphabet allegorical, alliterative & amusing : appreciable at all ages / L.J.H., artistical arranger.
  
• Publication:London : Effingham Wilson, 11 Royal Exchange, MDCCCLXXI [1871]
  
• Physical Description:[28] pages : illustrations ; 19 x 28 cm
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: PE1155 .H5 1871+ Oversize
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original printed blue boards, with red leather corners and back. Signed in red ink (20th century): Patmore.
  
• Notes:The artist's monogram on the title page consists of the superimposed letters J, H, and L. The Osborne Collection copy (Toronto Public Library) bears a handwritten note on the title page that reads "By L.J. Hill (my great aunt)."
  Title page printed in red ink.
  Lithographed throughout.
  Alderman Artichoke ... to Zedekiah Zigzag ...
  
• Summary:"A beautiful collection, delightfully etched, finely grouped, highly imaginative, jestingly knavish, ludicrously mischievous, notably odd, peculiarly queer, recreative, sensational, tittering, unquestionably volatile, whimsically xyzite."--Page [2].
  
• Variant and related titles:Alphabet allegorical, alliterative and amusing
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Alliteration.
  Alphabet--Juvenile literature.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1871.
  Wilson, Effingham--Publisher.
  
• Genre/Form:Alphabet books.
  Humorous pictures.
  Lithographs--1871.