The uncle's present : a new battledoor

24 letter alphabet (no J or U), illustrated with street vendors with their particular cries as captions.

Wrapper shaped like an envelope, with a flap that surrounds the fore-edge of the book. Title from inside that flap. Alphabet, numerals, illustration of sheep by a tree, and, "Read and be wise," on upper wrapper with imprint: Philadelphia: sold by Benjamin Warner, 147 Market Street.

Estimated date of printing based on these sources: Shaw & Shoemaker: [181-?]; Rosenbach: [ca. 1810]; AAS website: Johnson and Warner sold their firm in 1815.

Shaw & Shoemaker 21546

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 428

Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literary sampler, p. 34

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01/01/1810

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