The Scripture Alphabet in Verse

Day, Mahlon [printer]; Anderson, Alexander [illustrator]

Published by Printed and Sold by Mahlon Day, New-York, 1829

Chap-book, printed rose-colored wrapper, 10.8 x 6.8 cm, (4 1/4 x 2 5/8 inches), 17 pp. of text with 30 small wood engravings, including the one on the front of the wrapper. Small inscription in brown ink on the title page. List of children's books published by Day on the back cover. The Scripture Alphabet in Verse, pp. 1-15; Questiopns for Very Small Children, p. 16; A Child's Evening Prayer, p. 17; the alphabet in lower case is printed on the recto of the back cover.The printer's address is "At the New Juvenile Book-Store, no. 376, Pearl-street." Mahlon Day (1790-1854), b. Morristown, NJ; d. at sea in the sinking of the SS Arctic off the coast of Newfoundland. Day was an Orthodox Quaker and travelled with Joseph John Gurney in his ministry chronicling in his diary their trip through the West Indies and the Caribbean in 1839-40. His press produced many tracts for New York Yearly and Monthly Meetings. He was a trustee of the African Free School and a manager of the New York Institution for the Blind. "Mahlon Day was one of two printers who dominated the New York City children's book publishing scene in the early 19th century (the other being Samuel Wood). Day published entertaining and educational books that, like most others of his time, focus on piety, virtue, and morality." - New-York Historical Society website.Illustrated by Alexander Anderson (1775-1870), "wood engraver, miniaturist, physician.began wood engraving about 1793, and was the first known engraver (as distinguished from cutter) on wood in the U. S." - Groce & Wallace. Seller Inventory # 11967

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Scripture Alphabet in Verse
Publisher: Printed and Sold by Mahlon Day, New-York
Publication Date: 1829
Binding: Pamphlet
Condition: Good