invited alphabet; or, address of A to B
Subtitle: containing his friendly proposal for the amusement and instruction of good children
By: By R. R..
Contributors: Ransom, R.; Roe, Richard, 19th cent.; B. Tabart and Co,
Publisher: B. Tabart and Co., juvenile and school library, New Bond Street
Published: 1809
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Other titles: Address of A to B.
Notes: A set of illustrations of children demonstrating the deaf-and-dumb language, with introductory letterpress.

A later edition was published by William Darton in [1818?]: this is almost certainly the first edition though Osborne reports an edition by Darton in 1808 (according to Moon this represents the edition now more correctly dated as [1818?]). R. R.'s "The assembled alphabet" (also 1809) is advertised on the cover as forthcoming.

Variously attributed to R. Ransom and Richard Roe. The latter attribution derives from a poem in  another work by the same R. R.: "The good boy's soliloquy", 1811, but is probably an invented rather than a real name though a Richard Roe is known to have existed at this time (he d. 1853: see Moon p. 101). Osborne catalogue, v. 2 (1975) accepts Ransom as the author. The engraver was Charles Knight.

On the cover: same title, with "illustrated with twenty-five engravings", and a longer imprint.

26 engravings in all, with A and B on the first plate and six lines of verse on the last one.

References; Gumuchian 150; Moon 'Tabart' 141 [1]; Osborne, (v.2, 1975) p. 687.