An Alphabet of Celebrities, by Oliver Herford; 1899; Small & Maynard, Boston.
Intricately rhymed and beautifully illustrated alphabet book on the world of late 19th century celebrity. It ends up creating quite wonderfully bizarre a-historical scenarios by throwing names with the same beginning letter all in with each other – for the letter N: “N is for Napoleon, shrouded in gloom,/ With Nero, Narcissus, and Nerdau, to whom/ He’s explaining the manual of arms with a broom.”
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Housed at: Internet Archive | From: The Library of Congress |
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Underlying Work: PD Worldwide | Digital Copy: No Additional Rights |
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