细节
Tom Thumb's Alphabet, in verse, with cuts adapted to the twenty four letters. Milborne Port: printed by J. Denham, and sold by all the booksellers in town and country. (Price One Penny). n.d. [c.1780].
32° (100 x 64mm). First and last leaves pastedowns; last 2 pages are advertisments for 7 numbered children's books. Woodcut frontispiece and 24 alphabet cuts and one further small woodcut. Yellow wrappers with letterpress titling and decorations of printers' flowers.
Included is a letter to Mrs. Moon, with enclosure, from the Somerset County Local History Library, noting the absence of Denham from their records and citing his only known publication as a Genealogical History of the Family of Luttrell (1774). None of his other little books for children have been traced, and this one suggests that he was heavily dependent on London models for his ideas and illustrations.
32° (100 x 64mm). First and last leaves pastedowns; last 2 pages are advertisments for 7 numbered children's books. Woodcut frontispiece and 24 alphabet cuts and one further small woodcut. Yellow wrappers with letterpress titling and decorations of printers' flowers.
Included is a letter to Mrs. Moon, with enclosure, from the Somerset County Local History Library, noting the absence of Denham from their records and citing his only known publication as a Genealogical History of the Family of Luttrell (1774). None of his other little books for children have been traced, and this one suggests that he was heavily dependent on London models for his ideas and illustrations.