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COBWEBS TO CATCH FLIES: Illustrated Books for the Nursery and Schoolroom 1700-1900 by Joyce Irene Whalley

COBWEBS TO CATCH FLIES: Illustrated Books for the Nursery and Schoolroom 1700-1900

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Pub Date: Aug. 28th, 1975
Publisher: University of California Press

Alphabet and counting books, reading, history, geography, science, grammar, music and language books, and volumes of religious instruction and moral improvement--surveyed in a chapter per subject, with an English emphasis but much American material, and illustrated with pages from the works under discussion.