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The absurd A.B.C

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915, Kean, Elizabeth d'Hauteville, former owner. DSI, H.T. Cooke and Son, bookseller. DSI · 1874 · [London] : G. Routledge & Sons · 5 pictures

The Absurd A.B.C. is a Victorian alphabet book of nursery rhymes illustrated by Walter Crane and published in London by George Routledge & Sons in 1874 for young children. Its pictures are chromolithographed letter panels on dark grounds, with gold capitals, crowded with absurd figures, and they offer a designer strong models for decorative initials, framed tableaux and bold, flat colour borders.

Alphabet rhymes · Nursery rhymes · Illustrated children's books

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