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Manuscript/Mixed Material [Ivory hornbook]. Hornbook / Title from exhibition catalog: Ivory hornbook, eighteenth century, English / Ivory hornbook, 18th century, English

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Title

  • [Ivory hornbook].

Other Title

  • Hornbook
  • Title from exhibition catalog: Ivory hornbook, eighteenth century, English
  • Ivory hornbook, 18th century, English

Created / Published

  • [England : s.n., 17--]

Headings

  • -  Hornbooks--Specimens

Genre

  • Hornbooks

Notes

  • -  Title from spine of case.
  • -  An eighteenth-century English hornbook with the alphabet in upper (recto) and lowercases (verso) inscribed on ivory. Repairs made to broken handle.
  • -  Housed in a lined case (16 x 11 cm.)
  • -  Gift of Leonard Kebler, 1959.

Medium

  • 1 hornbook : ivory ; 12 x 7 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Z1033.H8 I8 1800z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2007700155

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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