History of the horn-book / by Andrew W. Tuer.

  • Andrew White Tuer
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: History of the horn-book / by Andrew W. Tuer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I The genesis of the horn-book—Definitions—The earliest record ; why so called—Continental tablets —No examples preserved in educational libraries or the libraries of public schools—“Destroy and forget ”—Millions of horn-books—Horn-books with numerals—Printing a development, not an invention—Written horn-books—Horn-books in the British Museum, South Kensington, and Bodleian Libraries—Horn-books at exhibitions ..... Page i CHAPTER II Nicknames applied to the horn-book—Advertisements of horn-books—Singing games—The fescue or pointer—The horn-book in old brasses—Nuremberg tokens—Prices of horn-books—The horn-book set to music ......... 20 CHAPTER HI A penny horn-book sold for ^1^65—Description of the Bateman horn-book—A horn-book “the making of which employeth above thirty trades”—The Bateman horn-book and William Hone ........... 33 CHAPTER IV Horn-books with pedigrees—Pedigrees generally untrustworthy—A triplet of stories—Lord Egerton of Tatton’s Elizabethan silver horn-book—A horn-book from which P'rederick, Prince of Wales, son of George IL, learned his A B C—Another horn-book with a pedigree . . 42 CHAPTER V Horn-books in the form of a cross—The cruciform shape the scarcest—Memory sketch of a “ cross ” horn-book—Balked by a dealer—Memory sketch of another “cross” horn-book—What Scoggin does say about the “ cross ” horn-book . . . • • -53
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