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The alphabet composed, arranged and dedicated to all good little girls by Miss Caroline Lyon ; drawn and written on stone by H.C. Maguire

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Author:
Lyon, Caroline Miss  Search this
Maguire, H. C. active approximately 1850-1880  Search this
Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI  Search this
Physical description:
4 pages of music illustrations 34 cm
Type:
Songs and music
Alphabet books
Sheet music
Place:
England
Date:
1825
1832
To 1901
1830-1840
Notes:
Undated. Date from publisher's advertisement in the December 1831 issue of The harmonicon
Includes 26 interlinear illustrations, one for each letter. A: Apple tree with a ladder propped against it and a man below. B: Hot-air balloon with two people waving flags from the gondola. C: Cup filled with custard and a spoon on a plate. D: Doll sitting against a wall. E: Child named Ellen. F: Feast laid out on a table. Pears, grapes, oranges, cherries, cake, and a knife. G: Courtyard-style garden. H: Woman raking hay in a field. I: Open book with ink spilled from an inkstand with feather quill. J: Boy named Joseph. K: Kitten playing with tail. L: Maid named Lucy with a pail of milk. M: Mother on a couch with two children. N: Man (Mr. Nobody) with top cat and cane. O: Ostrich. P: Peacock standing on a wall. Q: A pompey and a pug quarreling. R: Rose in china jug. S: Syllabub. T: Toys, including a badminton racquets and birdie, jump rope, and cup and ball toy. U: Uncle sitting in chair with girl on his lap. V: Vulture on top of a snake. W: Pocket watch. X: Two skeleton keys making an "x". Y: Youth reading a book at a desk. Z: Zoological gardens, focusing on a bear and a monkey
For voice and piano
Also available online
Elecresource
NASMRB copy mq1688400 is 33 cm
Topic:
Children's songs  Search this
English language--Alphabet  Search this
Popular music  Search this
Songs with piano  Search this
Nobody, Mr. (Fictitious character)  Search this
Apple trees  Search this
Balloons (Aircraft)  Search this
Bears  Search this
Books  Search this
Boys  Search this
Cakes  Search this
Cats  Search this
Chairs  Search this
Cherries  Search this
Children  Search this
Clocks & watches  Search this
Confections  Search this
Couches  Search this
Desks  Search this
Dogs  Search this
Dolls  Search this
Drinking vessels  Search this
Feathers  Search this
Flags  Search this
Gardens  Search this
Girls  Search this
Grapes  Search this
Haystacks  Search this
Inkstands  Search this
Keys (Hardware)  Search this
Knives  Search this
Ladders  Search this
Men  Search this
Monkeys  Search this
Mothers  Search this
Oranges  Search this
Ostriches  Search this
Pails  Search this
Peacocks  Search this
Pears  Search this
Pitchers  Search this
Roses  Search this
Servants  Search this
Snakes  Search this
Spoons  Search this
Staffs (Sticks)  Search this
Tables  Search this
Tableware  Search this
Top hats  Search this
Vultures  Search this
Walls  Search this
Women  Search this
Zoos  Search this
British  Search this
Call number:
M1 .B4
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_982619