Author: Tom Thumb
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Category : Alphabet books
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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The alphabet, forms of printed letters, and alphabet rhyme ("A was an Archer..."), followed by "easy lessons."

Author: Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1044

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Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 980

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Author: American Antiquarian Society
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1050

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Author: Patricia Crain
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804731751
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of A relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of text for children and of alphabetization as a social practice in America, from early modern reading primers to the literature of the American Renaissance. Offering a poetics of alphabetization and explicating the alphabet's tropes and rhetorical strategies, the author demonstrates the far-reaching cultural power of such apparently neutral statements as "A is for apple." The new market for children's books in the eighteenth century established for the "republic of ABC" a cultural potency equivalent to its high-culture counterpart, the "republic of letters," while shaping its child-readers into consumers. As a central rite of socialization, alphabetization schooled children to conflicting expectations, as well as to changing models of authority, understandings of the world, and uses of literature. In the nineteenth century, literacy became a crucial aspect of American middle-class personality and subjectivity. Furnishing the readers and writers needed for a national literature, the alphabetization of America between 1800 and 1850 informed the sentimental-reform novel as well as the self-consciously aesthetic novel of the 1850s. Through readings of conduct manuals, reading primers, and a sentimental bestseller, the author shows how the alphabet became embedded in a maternal narrative, which organized the world through domestic affections. Nathaniel Hawthorne, by contrast, insisted on the artificiality of the alphabet and its practices in his antimimetic, hermetic The Scarlet Letter, with its insistent focus on the letter A. By understanding this novel as part of the network of alphabetization, The Story of A accounts for its uniquely persistent cultural role. The author concludes, in an epilogue, with a reading of postmodern alphabets and their implications for the future of literacy.

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Adam Fox
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192508814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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The Press and the People is the first full-length study of cheap print in early modern Scotland. It traces the production and distribution of ephemeral publications from the nation's first presses in the early sixteenth century through to the age of Burns in the late eighteenth. It explores the development of the Scottish book trade in general and the production of slight and popular texts in particular. Focusing on the means by which these works reached a wide audience, it illuminates the nature of their circulation in both urban and rural contexts. Specific chapters examine single-sheet imprints such as ballads and gallows speeches, newssheets and advertisements, as well as the little pamphlets that contained almanacs and devotional works, stories and songs. The book demonstrates just how much more of this literature was once printed than now survives and argues that Scotland had a much larger market for such material than has been appreciated. By illustrating the ways in which Scottish printers combined well-known titles from England with a distinctive repertoire of their own, The Press and the People transforms our understanding of popular literature in early modern Scotland and its contribution to British culture more widely.

Author: Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books
Publisher: Conran Octopus
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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A catalogue of the Osborne Collection at Toronto Public Library which includes books, manuscripts and illustrations.