Baby's ABC with Full Page Coloured Pictures [title page]; Baby's ABC Book on Cloth [front cover]

(Alphabet) BABY'S ABC BOOK WITH FULL PAGE COLOURED PICTURES [TITLE PAGE]; BABY'S ABC BOOK ON CLOTH [FRONT COVER]. London; New York: Frederick Warne and Co., [circa 1910]. FIRST EDITION. Folio - 12-15/16" x 10-1/16". Red cloth half-bound with a color pictorial cloth covered upper board and a raw uncovered lower board with titles printed in black to what is a slightly sunned spine, with light wear to the head and tail of spine, shelf wear to the corners and edges, bumps and creases to the lower fore edge corners which is most visible to the uncovered lower board, a small stain at upper right of front cover and a soiled back cover for what, despite all the listed flaws, is still a nice copy of the book. All edges tinted red. Bookplate to upper paste-down. [26] stiff linen leaves printed rectos only. Printed entirely on cloth, this is an alphabet book with two complete runs through the alphabet instead of just one. The first time through, each letter is printed in upper case form in either blue or red and each is paired with a group of words that start with that letter, e.g., "A: Ark, Apples; B: Ball, Butterfly, Buttercup;" each of the letter/word groups is illustrated with a lovely chromolithograph. The second time through, each letter is printed in upper case form in one of a variety of different colors and each letter is paired with a verse related in some way to the letter, e.g., "A is for apples That Auntie will bring: B for the Bells That at Christmas-time ring;" each of the verses is illustrated with a beautiful full page chromolithograph; internally, the condition of the book is fine. The condition of the book is VERY GOOD. Only one copy located on OCLC/WorldCat (Randolph College). EXCEEDINGLY RARE; and a truly beautiful book. #000914