Every Baby's ABC
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Link Singerman ID: supp3052
Year: 1884
Entry: Every Baby’s ABC. New York: McLoughlin Bro’s., c1884.
unpaged.
Location: New York, NY
Title: Every Baby's ABC
Printer/Publisher: McLoughlin Bro's.
Language: English
Notes: Page illustrations are in vivid color. The letter "J"
is represented by a robed Jewish man and woman, also a
jockey; the caption, however, reads "Jew" and "Judge."
Concludes with "The Cat and the Mouse," a poem laid out
in columns comprised of single syllable words.
A hardcover edition printed on stiff paper boards with
the word "INDESTRUCTIBLE" printed on the front cover. The
cover depicts the faces of several small children framed
within a circle. An eye-catching blue ABC set on a red
background and representations of an ape, bat, and cat
complete the primer’s bright cover.
A variant edition is printed on linen-backed pages and
has a cover illustration of a nanny walking hand-in-hand
in a park with a young girl in a stylish purple dress
and matching bonnet. The illustrated cover includes text,
"MOUNTED ON LINEN," while the rear cover depicts children
dancing around a maypole. Copies: MWA, UPB.
Another variant is the thin softcover edition printed
on card stock with the same cover scenes, front and back,
as the linen-backed edition. "The Cat and the Mouse" now
begins in quatrains and concludes in word columns. Copies:
MiEM.